GeForce GTX 1080 vs GeForce RTX 3060 Ti

Intro

Compare all that to the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti, which has a clock speed of 1410 MHz and a GDDR6 memory frequency of 1750 MHz. It also features a 256-bit bus, and uses a 8 nm design. It is made up of 4864 SPUs, 152 TAUs, and 80 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 1080		180 Watts
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti		200 Watts
	Difference: 20 Watts (11%)

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce GTX 1080 should in theory be a bit faster than the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti in general. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1080		327680 MB/sec
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti		(Unknown) MB/sec
	Difference: 327680 (-100%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1080 is just a bit (more or less 20%) faster with regards to AF than the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1080		257120 Mtexels/sec
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti		214320 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 42800 (20%)

Pixel Rate

If using high levels of AA is important to you, then the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti is the winner, but not by far. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti		112800 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 1080		102848 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 9952 (10%)

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 maximum amount of information (in units of MB per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface in a second. It's calculated by multiplying the interface width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the graphics card could possibly write to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the clock 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 also depends on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.