GeForce GTX 960 vs GeForce RTX 3080 Ti

Intro

Compare that to the GeForce RTX 3080 Ti, which uses a 8 nm design. nVidia has clocked the core frequency at 1365 MHz. The GDDR6X RAM works at a frequency of 1188 MHz on this model. It features 10240 SPUs as well as 320 TAUs and 112 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 960		120 Watts
GeForce RTX 3080 Ti		350 Watts
	Difference: 230 Watts (192%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically, the GeForce RTX 3080 Ti should perform quite a bit faster than the GeForce GTX 960 overall. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti		934297 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 960		112000 MB/sec
	Difference: 822297 (734%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce RTX 3080 Ti will be a lot (more or less 506%) more effective at texture filtering than the GeForce GTX 960. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti		436800 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 960		72128 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 364672 (506%)

Pixel Rate

If using lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the GeForce RTX 3080 Ti is superior to the GeForce GTX 960, by a large margin. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti		152880 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 960		36064 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 116816 (324%)

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 over the external memory interface in a second. It's worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR type memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 once 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, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed in one second. This is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units 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 applied in one second.

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