GeForce GTX 560 Ti vs GeForce RTX 3060

Intro

Compare those specs to the GeForce RTX 3060, which has a GPU core clock speed of 1320 MHz, and (Unknown) MB of GDDR6 memory running at 1875 MHz through a 192-bit bus. It also features 3584 SPUs, 112 Texture Address Units, and 48 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Both cards have the same power consumption.

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the GeForce RTX 3060 should be 187% faster than the GeForce GTX 560 Ti overall, because of its greater bandwidth. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3060		368640 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 560 Ti		128256 MB/sec
	Difference: 240384 (187%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce RTX 3060 will be a lot (approximately 181%) better at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 560 Ti. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3060		147840 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 560 Ti		52608 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 95232 (181%)

Pixel Rate

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

GeForce RTX 3060		63360 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 560 Ti		26304 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 37056 (141%)

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 data (counted in MB per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface within a second. It is worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics card could possibly record to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate 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 outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel rate also depends on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.