GeForce GTX 780 Ti vs GeForce RTX 3060

Intro

Compare that to the GeForce RTX 3060, which features GPU clock speed of 1320 MHz, and (Unknown) MB of GDDR6 RAM running at 1875 MHz through a 192-bit bus. It also is comprised of 3584 SPUs, 112 Texture Address Units, and 48 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce RTX 3060		170 Watts
GeForce GTX 780 Ti		250 Watts
	Difference: 80 Watts (47%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the GeForce RTX 3060 should be 10% faster than the GeForce GTX 780 Ti overall, because of its greater data rate. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3060		368640 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 780 Ti		336000 MB/sec
	Difference: 32640 (10%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 780 Ti should be a lot (more or less 42%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the GeForce RTX 3060. (explain)

GeForce GTX 780 Ti		210000 Mtexels/sec
GeForce RTX 3060		147840 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 62160 (42%)

Pixel Rate

If using high levels of AA is important to you, then the GeForce RTX 3060 is superior to the GeForce GTX 780 Ti, by far. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3060		63360 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 780 Ti		42000 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 21360 (51%)

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 (counted in megabytes per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface in one second. It's calculated by multiplying the interface width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that can be applied in one second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the graphics card will be at handling 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 chip can possibly write to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the the card's 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 is also dependant on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.