GeForce RTX 2060 vs Geforce GTX 1080 Ti

Intro

Compare all that to the Geforce GTX 1080 Ti, which uses a 16 nm design. nVidia has clocked the core frequency at 1480 MHz. The GDDR5X RAM works at a frequency of 1376 MHz on this card. It features 3584 SPUs as well as 224 TAUs and 88 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce RTX 2060		160 Watts
Geforce GTX 1080 Ti		250 Watts
	Difference: 90 Watts (56%)

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the Geforce GTX 1080 Ti should in theory be much better than the GeForce RTX 2060 overall. (explain)

Geforce GTX 1080 Ti		495616 MB/sec
GeForce RTX 2060		344064 MB/sec
	Difference: 151552 (44%)

Texel Rate

The Geforce GTX 1080 Ti should be much (more or less 102%) better at texture filtering than the GeForce RTX 2060. (explain)

Geforce GTX 1080 Ti		331520 Mtexels/sec
GeForce RTX 2060		163800 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 167720 (102%)

Pixel Rate

If running with high levels of AA is important to you, then the Geforce GTX 1080 Ti is the winner, and very much so. (explain)

Geforce GTX 1080 Ti		130240 Mpixels/sec
GeForce RTX 2060		65520 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 64720 (99%)

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 (in units of megabytes per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface in a second. It's worked out by multiplying the bus width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR type memory, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the bandwidth is, the better 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 processed in one second. This is calculated by multiplying the total texture units by the core speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the graphics card can possibly write to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.