GeForce GTX 1650 vs GeForce RTX 3060

Intro

Compare those specs to the GeForce RTX 3060, which features core speeds of 1320 MHz on the GPU, and 1875 MHz on the (Unknown) MB of GDDR6 RAM. It features 3584 SPUs along with 112 TAUs and 48 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 1650		75 Watts
GeForce RTX 3060		170 Watts
	Difference: 95 Watts (127%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the GeForce RTX 3060 is 181% faster than the GeForce GTX 1650 overall, due to its greater bandwidth. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3060		368640 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 1650		131072 MB/sec
	Difference: 237568 (181%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce RTX 3060 will be a lot (approximately 78%) better at AF than the GeForce GTX 1650. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3060		147840 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 1650		83160 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 64680 (78%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high resolution is important to you, then the GeForce RTX 3060 is a better choice, by a large margin. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3060		63360 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 1650		47520 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 15840 (33%)

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 moved across the external memory interface in one second. The number is calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that can be processed per second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the graphics 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 record to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel rate also depends on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.