GeForce RTX 2060 vs GeForce RTX 3060

Intro

Compare that to the GeForce RTX 3060, which uses a 8 nm design. nVidia has clocked the core speed at 1320 MHz. The GDDR6 memory runs at a frequency of 1875 MHz on this particular card. It features 3584 SPUs along with 112 Texture Address Units and 48 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce RTX 2060		160 Watts
GeForce RTX 3060		170 Watts
	Difference: 10 Watts (6%)

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce RTX 3060 should in theory be just a bit faster than the GeForce RTX 2060 in general. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3060		368640 MB/sec
GeForce RTX 2060		344064 MB/sec
	Difference: 24576 (7%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce RTX 2060 will be just a bit (more or less 11%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the GeForce RTX 3060. (explain)

GeForce RTX 2060		163800 Mtexels/sec
GeForce RTX 3060		147840 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 15960 (11%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce RTX 2060 will be a bit (approximately 3%) more effective at anti-aliasing than the GeForce RTX 3060, and also able to handle higher resolutions better. (explain)

GeForce RTX 2060		65520 Mpixels/sec
GeForce RTX 3060		63360 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 2160 (3%)

Please note that the above 'benchmarks' are all just theoretical - the results were calculated based on the card's specifications, and real-world performance may (and probably will) vary at least a bit.

Price Comparison

Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the max amount of data (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface within a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR type RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that are applied in one second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the graphics card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the video card could possibly write to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the number of ROPs by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.