GeForce RTX 2060 vs GeForce RTX 3080

Intro

Compare all that to the GeForce RTX 3080, which has clock speeds of 1440 MHz on the GPU, and 1188 MHz on the 10240 MB of GDDR6X RAM. It features 8704 SPUs as well as 272 Texture Address Units and 96 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce RTX 2060		160 Watts
GeForce RTX 3080		320 Watts
	Difference: 160 Watts (100%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the GeForce RTX 3080 should perform a lot faster than the GeForce RTX 2060 in general. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3080		778547 MB/sec
GeForce RTX 2060		344064 MB/sec
	Difference: 434483 (126%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce RTX 3080 is a lot (more or less 139%) faster with regards to AF than the GeForce RTX 2060. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3080		391680 Mtexels/sec
GeForce RTX 2060		163800 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 227880 (139%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high resolution is important to you, then the GeForce RTX 3080 is superior to the GeForce RTX 2060, by a large margin. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3080		138240 Mpixels/sec
GeForce RTX 2060		65520 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 72720 (111%)

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: Memory bandwidth is the maximum amount of information (counted in megabytes per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface in a second. It is worked out by multiplying the bus width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR type memory, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the bandwidth is, the better 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 can be processed in one second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the graphics card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics chip can possibly write to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.