GeForce GTX 1060 3GB 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 along with 112 Texture Address Units and 48 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 1060 3GB		120 Watts
GeForce RTX 3060		170 Watts
	Difference: 50 Watts (42%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the GeForce RTX 3060 is 88% faster than the GeForce GTX 1060 3GB in general, due to its greater bandwidth. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3060		368640 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 1060 3GB		196608 MB/sec
	Difference: 172032 (88%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce RTX 3060 should be quite a bit (more or less 36%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 1060 3GB. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3060		147840 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 1060 3GB		108432 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 39408 (36%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high screen resolution is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 1060 3GB is superior to the GeForce RTX 3060, but only just. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1060 3GB		72288 Mpixels/sec
GeForce RTX 3060		63360 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 8928 (14%)

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 maximum amount of data (in units of megabytes per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface in a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR memory, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses 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 higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that are applied 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 this number, the better the graphics card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics card could possibly record to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel output rate also depends on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.