GeForce GTX 1070 vs GeForce RTX 3060

Intro

Compare that to the GeForce RTX 3060, which uses a 8 nm design. nVidia has clocked the core speed at 1320 MHz. The GDDR6 RAM runs at a frequency of 1875 MHz on this card. 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 1070		150 Watts
GeForce RTX 3060		170 Watts
	Difference: 20 Watts (13%)

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the GeForce RTX 3060 should in theory be a lot better than the GeForce GTX 1070 in general. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3060		368640 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 1070		262144 MB/sec
	Difference: 106496 (41%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1070 will be much (more or less 22%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the GeForce RTX 3060. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1070		180720 Mtexels/sec
GeForce RTX 3060		147840 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 32880 (22%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1070 is quite a bit (approximately 52%) better at full screen anti-aliasing than the GeForce RTX 3060, and also should be capable of handling higher screen resolutions better. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1070		96384 Mpixels/sec
GeForce RTX 3060		63360 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 33024 (52%)

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 information (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface in a second. It's worked out by multiplying the interface width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR type RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be applied per second. This is worked out by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the graphics card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the graphics card could possibly record to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the amount of Render Output Units by the the core clock speed. 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, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.