GeForce RTX 3060 vs Nvidia Titan X

Intro

Compare all of that to the Nvidia Titan X, which makes use of a 16 nm design. nVidia has clocked the core frequency at 1417 MHz. The GDDR5X memory is set to run at a frequency of 1251 MHz on this card. It features 3584 SPUs as well as 224 Texture Address Units and 96 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce RTX 3060		170 Watts
Nvidia Titan X		250 Watts
	Difference: 80 Watts (47%)

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the Nvidia Titan X should theoretically be much superior to the GeForce RTX 3060 in general. (explain)

Nvidia Titan X		491520 MB/sec
GeForce RTX 3060		368640 MB/sec
	Difference: 122880 (33%)

Texel Rate

The Nvidia Titan X is quite a bit (about 115%) more effective at texture filtering than the GeForce RTX 3060. (explain)

Nvidia Titan X		317408 Mtexels/sec
GeForce RTX 3060		147840 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 169568 (115%)

Pixel Rate

If running with high levels of AA is important to you, then the Nvidia Titan X is the winner, and very much so. (explain)

Nvidia Titan X		136032 Mpixels/sec
GeForce RTX 3060		63360 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 72672 (115%)

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 information (counted in megabytes per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface in a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR type RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that can be applied per second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total 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 handling 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 the video card could possibly write to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel output rate also depends on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.