GeForce GTX 260 vs GeForce RTX 2080 Ti

Intro

Compare those specifications to the GeForce RTX 2080 Ti, which features core speeds of 1350 MHz on the GPU, and 1750 MHz on the 11264 MB of GDDR6 RAM. It features 4352 SPUs along with 272 TAUs and 88 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 260		182 Watts
GeForce RTX 2080 Ti		250 Watts
	Difference: 68 Watts (37%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the GeForce RTX 2080 Ti should perform a lot faster than the GeForce GTX 260 in general. (explain)

GeForce RTX 2080 Ti		630784 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 260		111888 MB/sec
	Difference: 518896 (464%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce RTX 2080 Ti should be much (more or less 896%) better at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 260. (explain)

GeForce RTX 2080 Ti		367200 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 260		36864 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 330336 (896%)

Pixel Rate

If using lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the GeForce RTX 2080 Ti is superior to the GeForce GTX 260, by a large margin. (explain)

GeForce RTX 2080 Ti		118800 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 260		16128 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 102672 (637%)

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 information (in units of MB per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface within a second. It's calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the memory bandwidth, 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 amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed per second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the video card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied in one second.

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