GeForce RTX 2060 vs GeForce RTX 3060

Intro

Compare all of that to the GeForce RTX 3060, which uses a 8 nm design. nVidia has set the core speed at 1320 MHz. The GDDR6 memory works at a frequency of 1875 MHz on this specific card. It features 3584 SPUs as well as 112 Texture Address Units and 48 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce RTX 2060		160 Watts
GeForce RTX 3060		170 Watts
	Difference: 10 Watts (6%)

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce RTX 3060 should in theory be a little bit faster than the GeForce RTX 2060 overall. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3060		368640 MB/sec
GeForce RTX 2060		344064 MB/sec
	Difference: 24576 (7%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce RTX 2060 will be a bit (approximately 11%) better at AF than the GeForce RTX 3060. (explain)

GeForce RTX 2060		163800 Mtexels/sec
GeForce RTX 3060		147840 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 15960 (11%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high screen resolution is important to you, then the GeForce RTX 2060 is the winner, not by a very large margin though. (explain)

GeForce RTX 2060		65520 Mpixels/sec
GeForce RTX 3060		63360 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 2160 (3%)

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 data (in units of MB per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface in one second. The number is calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR type memory, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the bandwidth is, the faster 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 can be processed per second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the graphics card will be at 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 that the graphics card can possibly write to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.