GeForce RTX 2070 vs GeForce RTX 3060

Intro

Compare those specs to the GeForce RTX 3060, which comes with GPU clock speed of 1320 MHz, and (Unknown) MB of GDDR6 RAM set to run at 1875 MHz through a 192-bit bus. It also is comprised of 3584 Stream Processors, 112 Texture Address Units, and 48 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce RTX 3060		170 Watts
GeForce RTX 2070		175 Watts
	Difference: 5 Watts (3%)

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce RTX 2070, in theory, should be much faster than the GeForce RTX 3060 overall. (explain)

GeForce RTX 2070		458752 MB/sec
GeForce RTX 3060		368640 MB/sec
	Difference: 90112 (24%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce RTX 2070 should be a lot (more or less 37%) better at texture filtering than the GeForce RTX 3060. (explain)

GeForce RTX 2070		203040 Mtexels/sec
GeForce RTX 3060		147840 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 55200 (37%)

Pixel Rate

If using high levels of AA is important to you, then the GeForce RTX 2070 is a better choice, by far. (explain)

GeForce RTX 2070		90240 Mpixels/sec
GeForce RTX 3060		63360 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 26880 (42%)

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 largest amount of data (counted in megabytes per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface within a second. It's calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 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 AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that are applied per second. This is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the video card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics chip could possibly record to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the number of ROPs 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 output rate is also dependant on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.