GeForce GTX 1070 vs GeForce RTX 2060

Intro

Compare those specifications to the GeForce RTX 2060, which makes use of a 12 nm design. nVidia has clocked the core speed at 1365 MHz. The GDDR6 RAM is set to run at a frequency of 1750 MHz on this specific card. It features 1920 SPUs along with 120 Texture Address Units and 48 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 1070		150 Watts
GeForce RTX 2060		160 Watts
	Difference: 10 Watts (7%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the GeForce RTX 2060 should be much faster than the GeForce GTX 1070 overall. (explain)

GeForce RTX 2060		344064 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 1070		262144 MB/sec
	Difference: 81920 (31%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1070 is a bit (approximately 10%) more effective at texture filtering than the GeForce RTX 2060. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1070		180720 Mtexels/sec
GeForce RTX 2060		163800 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 16920 (10%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1070 will be much (about 47%) faster with regards to full screen anti-aliasing than the GeForce RTX 2060, and also able to handle higher resolutions without losing too much performance. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1070		96384 Mpixels/sec
GeForce RTX 2060		65520 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 30864 (47%)

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 (counted in MB per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface in a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the bus width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR type memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that are processed per second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core clock 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 in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics card could possibly write to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core 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 rate is also dependant on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.