GeForce GTX 780 Ti vs GeForce RTX 3060

Intro

Compare those specifications to the GeForce RTX 3060, which uses a 8 nm design. nVidia has clocked the core frequency at 1320 MHz. The GDDR6 RAM runs at a speed of 1875 MHz on this specific card. It features 3584 SPUs along with 112 TAUs and 48 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce RTX 3060		170 Watts
GeForce GTX 780 Ti		250 Watts
	Difference: 80 Watts (47%)

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce RTX 3060, in theory, should be a bit faster than the GeForce GTX 780 Ti in general. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3060		368640 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 780 Ti		336000 MB/sec
	Difference: 32640 (10%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 780 Ti is quite a bit (approximately 42%) faster with regards to AF than the GeForce RTX 3060. (explain)

GeForce GTX 780 Ti		210000 Mtexels/sec
GeForce RTX 3060		147840 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 62160 (42%)

Pixel Rate

If using lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the GeForce RTX 3060 is a better choice, by far. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3060		63360 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 780 Ti		42000 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 21360 (51%)

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 largest amount of data (measured in MB per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface in one second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR type RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that can be processed per second. This is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the graphics card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the video card could possibly record to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out 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 outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.