GeForce RTX 3060 vs Geforce GTX 690

Intro

Compare all of that to the Geforce GTX 690, which comes with 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 Raster Operation Units.

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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

The Geforce GTX 690 should in theory perform a little 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 a lot (approximately 58%) better at texture 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 high levels of AA is important to you, then the GeForce RTX 3060 is the winner, not by a very large margin though. (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: Bandwidth is the maximum amount of information (in units of MB per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface in one second. The number is calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that are processed in one second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the video card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed in a second.

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