GeForce GTX 1080 vs GeForce RTX 3060 Ti

Intro

Compare all that to the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti, which comes with core clock speeds of 1410 MHz on the GPU, and 1750 MHz on the 8192 MB of GDDR6 RAM. It features 4864 SPUs along with 152 TAUs and 80 Rasterization Operator 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

As far as performance goes, the GeForce GTX 1080 should in theory be a small bit better 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 will be a bit (more or less 20%) better at 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

The GeForce RTX 3060 Ti will be a little bit (about 10%) more effective at anti-aliasing than the GeForce GTX 1080, and also should be able to handle higher screen resolutions better. (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 largest amount of information (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface in a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the interface width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR type RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics chip 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 Render Output Units by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel output rate also depends on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.