GeForce 9800 GX2 vs GeForce RTX 3060 Ti

Intro

Compare those specifications to the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti, which features 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 9800 GX2		197 Watts
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti		200 Watts
	Difference: 3 Watts (2%)

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce 9800 GX2, in theory, should perform a bit faster than the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti in general. (explain)

GeForce 9800 GX2		128000 MB/sec
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti		(Unknown) MB/sec
	Difference: 128000 (-100%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce RTX 3060 Ti is a lot (more or less 179%) more effective at texture filtering than the GeForce 9800 GX2. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti		214320 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 9800 GX2		76800 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 137520 (179%)

Pixel Rate

If running with lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti is a better choice, by far. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti		112800 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 9800 GX2		19200 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 93600 (488%)

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.

One or more cards in this comparison are multi-core. This means that their bandwidth, texel and pixel rates are theoretically doubled - this does not mean the card will actually perform twice as fast, but only that it should in theory be able to. Actual game benchmarks will give a more accurate idea of what it's capable of.

Price Comparison

Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the maximum amount of information (counted in MB per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface in one second. The number is worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better 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 number of texture map elements (texels) that are processed in one second. This is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the 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 most pixels that the graphics card could possibly write to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel rate also depends on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.