GeForce GT 315 vs GeForce RTX 3060 Ti

Intro

Compare those specs to the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti, which features a clock speed of 1410 MHz and a GDDR6 memory speed of 1750 MHz. It also uses a 256-bit bus, and uses a 8 nm design. It features 4864 SPUs, 152 Texture Address Units, and 80 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GT 315		52 Watts
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti		200 Watts
	Difference: 148 Watts (285%)

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the GeForce GT 315 should theoretically be just a bit better than the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti overall. (explain)

GeForce GT 315		25280 MB/sec
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti		(Unknown) MB/sec
	Difference: 25280 (-100%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce RTX 3060 Ti should be a lot (more or less 2043%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the GeForce GT 315. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti		214320 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GT 315		10000 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 204320 (2043%)

Pixel Rate

If using lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti is a better choice, and very much so. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti		112800 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GT 315		5000 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 107800 (2156%)

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 (measured in MB per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface in one second. It's calculated by multiplying the interface width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR type memory, the result 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 AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

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

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