GeForce GTX 465 vs GeForce RTX 3060

Intro

Compare those specs 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 made up 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 465		200 Watts
	Difference: 30 Watts (18%)

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the GeForce RTX 3060 should theoretically be much superior to the GeForce GTX 465 in general. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3060		368640 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 465		102592 MB/sec
	Difference: 266048 (259%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce RTX 3060 will be much (approximately 454%) better at AF than the GeForce GTX 465. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3060		147840 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 465		26708 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 121132 (454%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high screen resolution is important to you, then the GeForce RTX 3060 is a better choice, by a large margin. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3060		63360 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 465		19424 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 43936 (226%)

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 data (in units of megabytes per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface within a second. It's calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the better 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 texture map elements (texels) that can be processed per second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics card could possibly record 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 clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel rate is also dependant on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.