GeForce RTX 3060 vs Geforce GTX 690

Intro

Compare all that to the Geforce GTX 690, which has GPU clock speed of 915 MHz, and 2048 MB of GDDR5 memory set to run at 1502 MHz through a 256-bit bus. It also is made up of 1536 SPUs, 128 TAUs, and 32 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce RTX 3060		170 Watts
Geforce GTX 690		300 Watts
	Difference: 130 Watts (76%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Geforce GTX 690 should perform a small bit faster than the GeForce RTX 3060 overall. (explain)

Geforce GTX 690		384512 MB/sec
GeForce RTX 3060		368640 MB/sec
	Difference: 15872 (4%)

Texel Rate

The Geforce GTX 690 is much (more or less 58%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the GeForce RTX 3060. (explain)

Geforce GTX 690		234240 Mtexels/sec
GeForce RTX 3060		147840 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 86400 (58%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high resolution is important to you, then the GeForce RTX 3060 is superior to the Geforce GTX 690, but not by far. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3060		63360 Mpixels/sec
Geforce GTX 690		58560 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 4800 (8%)

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.

One or more cards in this comparison are multi-core. This means that their bandwidth, texel and pixel rates are theoretically doubled - this does not mean the card will actually perform twice as fast, but only that it should in theory be able to. Actual game benchmarks will give a more accurate idea of what it's capable of.

Price Comparison

Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the largest amount of information (measured in MB per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface within a second. It's calculated by multiplying the interface width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the memory bandwidth, the better 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 in one second. This is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the graphics card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics chip can possibly write to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the amount of Render Output Units by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel output rate also depends on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.