GeForce GTX 1080 vs GeForce RTX 3060 Ti

Intro

Compare that to the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti, which features a clock frequency of 1410 MHz and a GDDR6 memory speed of 1750 MHz. It also uses a 256-bit bus, and uses a 8 nm design. It is comprised of 4864 SPUs, 152 TAUs, and 80 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 1080		180 Watts
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti		200 Watts
	Difference: 20 Watts (11%)

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the GeForce GTX 1080 should theoretically be just a bit superior to the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti in general. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1080		327680 MB/sec
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti		(Unknown) MB/sec
	Difference: 327680 (-100%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1080 should be a small bit (about 20%) more effective at texture filtering than the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1080		257120 Mtexels/sec
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti		214320 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 42800 (20%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high screen resolution is important to you, then the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti is a better choice, not by a very large margin though. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti		112800 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 1080		102848 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 9952 (10%)

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 largest amount of data (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface in one second. It is calculated by multiplying the bus width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the graphics card could possibly write to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.