GeForce GTX 550 Ti vs GeForce RTX 3060

Intro

Compare all of that to the GeForce RTX 3060, which comes with a clock speed of 1320 MHz and a GDDR6 memory speed of 1875 MHz. It also makes use of a 192-bit memory bus, and makes use of a 8 nm design. It is comprised of 3584 SPUs, 112 TAUs, and 48 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 550 Ti		116 Watts
GeForce RTX 3060		170 Watts
	Difference: 54 Watts (47%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the GeForce RTX 3060 should be a lot faster than the GeForce GTX 550 Ti overall. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3060		368640 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 550 Ti		98496 MB/sec
	Difference: 270144 (274%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce RTX 3060 will be quite a bit (more or less 413%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 550 Ti. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3060		147840 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 550 Ti		28800 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 119040 (413%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce RTX 3060 will be quite a bit (more or less 193%) faster with regards to full screen anti-aliasing than the GeForce GTX 550 Ti, and will be capable of handling higher resolutions while still performing well. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3060		63360 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 550 Ti		21600 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 41760 (193%)

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 over the external memory interface in a second. It's calculated by multiplying the interface width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the bandwidth is, the faster 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 texture map elements (texels) that can be applied per second. This is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the video 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 amount of pixels the video card could possibly write to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the card's clock speed. 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 lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.