GeForce RTX 3060 vs Geforce GTX 690

Intro

Compare that to the Geforce GTX 690, which makes use of a 28 nm design. nVidia has set the core frequency at 915 MHz. The GDDR5 memory works at a frequency of 1502 MHz on this particular model. It features 1536 SPUs as well as 128 TAUs and 32 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce RTX 3060		170 Watts
Geforce GTX 690		300 Watts
	Difference: 130 Watts (76%)

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the Geforce GTX 690 should in theory be a little bit better than the GeForce RTX 3060 in general. (explain)

Geforce GTX 690		384512 MB/sec
GeForce RTX 3060		368640 MB/sec
	Difference: 15872 (4%)

Texel Rate

The Geforce GTX 690 is a lot (more or less 58%) faster with regards to AF than the GeForce RTX 3060. (explain)

Geforce GTX 690		234240 Mtexels/sec
GeForce RTX 3060		147840 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 86400 (58%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high screen resolution is important to you, then the GeForce RTX 3060 is the winner, but it probably won't make a huge difference. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3060		63360 Mpixels/sec
Geforce GTX 690		58560 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 4800 (8%)

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.

One or more cards in this comparison are multi-core. This means that their bandwidth, texel and pixel rates are theoretically doubled - this does not mean the card will actually perform twice as fast, but only that it should in theory be able to. Actual game benchmarks will give a more accurate idea of what it's capable of.

Price Comparison

Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the maximum amount of information (counted in megabytes per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface in one second. It's calculated by multiplying the interface width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics chip could possibly write to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel fill rate also depends on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.