GeForce GTX 1050 Ti vs GeForce RTX 3060

Intro

Compare that to the GeForce RTX 3060, which makes use of a 8 nm design. nVidia has clocked the core frequency at 1320 MHz. The GDDR6 memory works at a frequency of 1875 MHz on this specific model. It features 3584 SPUs along with 112 TAUs and 48 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 1050 Ti		75 Watts
GeForce RTX 3060		170 Watts
	Difference: 95 Watts (127%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the GeForce RTX 3060 will be 221% faster than the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti overall, because of its higher data rate. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3060		368640 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 1050 Ti		114688 MB/sec
	Difference: 253952 (221%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce RTX 3060 should be quite a bit (more or less 139%) more effective at AF than the GeForce GTX 1050 Ti. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3060		147840 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 1050 Ti		61920 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 85920 (139%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high resolution is important to you, then the GeForce RTX 3060 is the winner, by far. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3060		63360 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 1050 Ti		41280 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 22080 (53%)

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 largest amount of information (counted in MB per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface in a second. It's worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher 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 number of texture map elements (texels) that can be applied in one second. This is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels per second.

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