GeForce GTX 280 vs GeForce RTX 3060 Ti

Intro

Compare all of that to the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti, which comes with a GPU core clock speed of 1410 MHz, and 8192 MB of GDDR6 memory set to run at 1750 MHz through a 256-bit bus. It also features 4864 Stream Processors, 152 TAUs, and 80 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti		200 Watts
GeForce GTX 280		236 Watts
	Difference: 36 Watts (18%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the GeForce GTX 280 is -100% quicker than the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti overall, due to its greater bandwidth. (explain)

GeForce GTX 280		141696 MB/sec
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti		(Unknown) MB/sec
	Difference: 141696 (-100%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce RTX 3060 Ti is much (more or less 345%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the GeForce GTX 280. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti		214320 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 280		48160 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 166160 (345%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high screen resolution is important to you, then the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti is superior to the GeForce GTX 280, by a large margin. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti		112800 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 280		19264 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 93536 (486%)

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 (in units of MB per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface within a second. It's worked out by multiplying the bus width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 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 AA, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that can be applied per second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total texture units of the card 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 maximum amount of pixels the video card can possibly write to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.