GeForce GTX 1050 vs GeForce RTX 3060

Intro

Compare all of that to the GeForce RTX 3060, which features clock speeds of 1320 MHz on the GPU, and 1875 MHz on the (Unknown) MB of GDDR6 RAM. 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 GTX 1050		75 Watts
GeForce RTX 3060		170 Watts
	Difference: 95 Watts (127%)

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce RTX 3060 should in theory be quite a bit faster than the GeForce GTX 1050 in general. (explain)

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

Texel Rate

The GeForce RTX 3060 will be quite a bit (about 173%) better at texture filtering than the GeForce GTX 1050. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3060		147840 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 1050		54160 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 93680 (173%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce RTX 3060 is much (approximately 46%) more effective at FSAA than the GeForce GTX 1050, and will be capable of handling higher resolutions without losing too much performance. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3060		63360 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 1050		43328 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 20032 (46%)

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 max amount of data (in units of megabytes per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface in a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the interface width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR memory, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that are applied per second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the card will be at 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 that the graphics card could possibly record to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the number of ROPs by the the core 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 fill rate is also dependant on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.