GeForce GTX 1070 vs GeForce RTX 3060

Intro

Compare that to the GeForce RTX 3060, which comes with core clock speeds of 1320 MHz on the GPU, and 1875 MHz on the (Unknown) MB of GDDR6 memory. 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 1070		150 Watts
GeForce RTX 3060		170 Watts
	Difference: 20 Watts (13%)

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the GeForce RTX 3060 should theoretically be much 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 should be quite a bit (approximately 22%) more effective at texture filtering than the GeForce RTX 3060. (explain)

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

Pixel Rate

If using a high screen resolution is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 1070 is a better choice, by a large margin. (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 largest amount of information (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface in one second. It is worked out by multiplying the bus width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be applied in one second. This is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core clock 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 processed in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics chip can possibly write to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the the core speed of the card. 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 quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.