GeForce GTX 980 Ti vs GeForce RTX 2060

Intro

Compare those specifications to the GeForce RTX 2060, which comes with a core clock speed of 1365 MHz and a GDDR6 memory speed of 1750 MHz. It also makes use of a 192-bit memory bus, and makes use of a 12 nm design. It is comprised of 1920 SPUs, 120 TAUs, and 48 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce RTX 2060		160 Watts
GeForce GTX 980 Ti		250 Watts
	Difference: 90 Watts (56%)

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce RTX 2060, in theory, should perform a little bit faster than the GeForce GTX 980 Ti in general. (explain)

GeForce RTX 2060		344064 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 980 Ti		336000 MB/sec
	Difference: 8064 (2%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 980 Ti is a little bit (more or less 7%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce RTX 2060. (explain)

GeForce GTX 980 Ti		176000 Mtexels/sec
GeForce RTX 2060		163800 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 12200 (7%)

Pixel Rate

If running with high levels of AA is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 980 Ti is the winner, by far. (explain)

GeForce GTX 980 Ti		96000 Mpixels/sec
GeForce RTX 2060		65520 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 30480 (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 (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface in one second. It is calculated by multiplying the bus width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the graphics card can possibly record to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.