GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 vs GeForce RTX 3060 Ti

Intro

Compare all that to the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti, which makes use of a 8 nm design. nVidia has clocked the core frequency at 1410 MHz. The GDDR6 RAM runs at a frequency of 1750 MHz on this particular card. 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 RTX 3060 Ti		200 Watts
GeForce GTX 260 Core 216		202 Watts
	Difference: 2 Watts (1%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 should perform a small bit faster than the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti in general. (explain)

GeForce GTX 260 Core 216		111888 MB/sec
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti		(Unknown) MB/sec
	Difference: 111888 (-100%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce RTX 3060 Ti is quite a bit (more or less 417%) better at texture filtering than the GeForce GTX 260 Core 216. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti		214320 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 260 Core 216		41472 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 172848 (417%)

Pixel Rate

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

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti		112800 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 260 Core 216		16128 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 96672 (599%)

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 max amount of data (counted in MB per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface in one second. It's calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the graphics card could possibly write to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the amount of Render Output Units by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel output rate also depends on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.