GeForce GTX 1080 vs GeForce RTX 3060

Intro

Compare that to the GeForce RTX 3060, which uses a 8 nm design. nVidia has set the core speed at 1320 MHz. The GDDR6 RAM works at a speed of 1875 MHz on this model. It features 3584 SPUs as well as 112 Texture Address Units and 48 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce RTX 3060		170 Watts
GeForce GTX 1080		180 Watts
	Difference: 10 Watts (6%)

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce RTX 3060, in theory, should perform a little bit faster than the GeForce GTX 1080 overall. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3060		368640 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 1080		327680 MB/sec
	Difference: 40960 (13%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1080 is much (approximately 74%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the GeForce RTX 3060. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1080		257120 Mtexels/sec
GeForce RTX 3060		147840 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 109280 (74%)

Pixel Rate

If using lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 1080 is superior to the GeForce RTX 3060, by far. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1080		102848 Mpixels/sec
GeForce RTX 3060		63360 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 39488 (62%)

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: Bandwidth is the maximum amount of data (counted in megabytes per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface in one second. The number is calculated by multiplying the interface width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR memory, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that are processed in one second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the video 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 amount of pixels the video card can possibly record to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel rate is also dependant on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.