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GeForce GTX 780 Ti vs GeForce RTX 3060

Intro

The GeForce GTX 780 Ti has a clock speed of 875 MHz and a GDDR5 memory speed of 1750 MHz. It also features a 384-bit bus, and makes use of a 28 nm design. It features 2880 SPUs, 240 Texture Address Units, and 48 Raster Operation Units.

Compare those specs to the GeForce RTX 3060, which makes use of a 8 nm design. nVidia has clocked the core speed at 1320 MHz. The GDDR6 RAM is set to run at a frequency of 1875 MHz on this specific model. It features 3584 SPUs as well as 112 Texture Address Units and 48 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce RTX 3060 170 Watts
GeForce GTX 780 Ti 250 Watts
Difference: 80 Watts (47%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically, the GeForce RTX 3060 should be a little bit faster than the GeForce GTX 780 Ti in general. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3060 368640 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 780 Ti 336000 MB/sec
Difference: 32640 (10%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 780 Ti will be quite a bit (approximately 42%) better at AF than the GeForce RTX 3060. (explain)

GeForce GTX 780 Ti 210000 Mtexels/sec
GeForce RTX 3060 147840 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 62160 (42%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high resolution is important to you, then the GeForce RTX 3060 is the winner, by far. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3060 63360 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 780 Ti 42000 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 21360 (51%)

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

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Specifications

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Model GeForce GTX 780 Ti GeForce RTX 3060
Manufacturer nVidia nVidia
Year November 2013 February 2021
Code Name GK110 GA106
Memory 3072 MB (Unknown) MB
Core Speed 875 MHz 1320 MHz
Memory Speed 7000 MHz 3750 GB/s
Power (Max TDP) 250 watts 170 watts
Bandwidth 336000 MB/sec 368640 MB/sec
Texel Rate 210000 Mtexels/sec 147840 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 42000 Mpixels/sec 63360 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 2880 3584
Texture Mapping Units 240 112
Render Output Units 48 48
Bus Type GDDR5 GDDR6
Bus Width 384-bit 192-bit
Fab Process 28 nm 8 nm
Transistors 7080 million 13250 million
Bus PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 4.0 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 11.0 DirectX 12
OpenGL Version OpenGL 4.4 OpenGL 4.6

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 one second. It's worked out by multiplying the bus width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR type memory, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics chip can possibly record to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel output rate also depends on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.

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GeForce GTX 780 Ti

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