GeForce GTX 260 vs GeForce RTX 3060 Ti

Intro

Compare all of that to the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti, which comes with GPU clock speed of 1410 MHz, and 8192 MB of GDDR6 RAM running at 1750 MHz through a 256-bit bus. It also is comprised of 4864 Stream Processors, 152 Texture Address Units, and 80 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 260		182 Watts
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti		200 Watts
	Difference: 18 Watts (10%)

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce GTX 260 should theoretically perform a small bit faster than the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti in general. (explain)

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

Texel Rate

The GeForce RTX 3060 Ti will be much (more or less 481%) better at AF than the GeForce GTX 260. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti		214320 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 260		36864 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 177456 (481%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce RTX 3060 Ti should be a lot (approximately 599%) more effective at AA than the GeForce GTX 260, and also should be capable of handling higher screen resolutions without slowing down too much. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti		112800 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 260		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 megabytes per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface within a second. It is calculated by multiplying the interface width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed per 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 better this number, the better the card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in a second.

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