GeForce RTX 3060 vs GeForce RTX 3060 Ti

Intro

Compare those specifications to the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti, which uses a 8 nm design. nVidia has set the core speed at 1410 MHz. The GDDR6 RAM works at a frequency of 1750 MHz on this model. It features 4864 SPUs as well as 152 Texture Address Units and 80 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce RTX 3060		170 Watts
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti		200 Watts
	Difference: 30 Watts (18%)

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the GeForce RTX 3060 should in theory be a bit better than the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti in general. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3060		368640 MB/sec
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti		(Unknown) MB/sec
	Difference: 368640 (-100%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce RTX 3060 Ti will be quite a bit (approximately 45%) better at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce RTX 3060. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti		214320 Mtexels/sec
GeForce RTX 3060		147840 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 66480 (45%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce RTX 3060 Ti should be a lot (about 78%) faster with regards to anti-aliasing than the GeForce RTX 3060, and also capable of handling higher resolutions without slowing down too much. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti		112800 Mpixels/sec
GeForce RTX 3060		63360 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 49440 (78%)

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 max amount of information (measured in MB per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface within a second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that are processed in one second. This number 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 texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the video card can possibly write to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel output rate also depends on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.