GeForce RTX 2070 Super vs GeForce RTX 3060

Intro

The GeForce RTX 2070 Super makes use of a 12 nm design. nVidia has set the core frequency at 1605 MHz. The GDDR6 RAM runs at a frequency of 1750 MHz on this specific model. It features 2560 SPUs as well as 160 Texture Address Units and 64 Rasterization Operator Units.

Compare those specifications to the GeForce RTX 3060, which features a clock speed of 1320 MHz and a GDDR6 memory frequency of 1875 MHz. It also uses a 192-bit bus, and uses a 8 nm design. It is comprised of 3584 SPUs, 112 Texture Address Units, and 48 Raster Operation Units.

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Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the max amount of data (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface within a second. It is worked out by multiplying the interface width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR type RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If 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, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the video card could possibly record to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel fill rate also depends on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.