GeForce GTX 1060 vs GeForce RTX 3070 Ti

Intro

Compare those specs to the GeForce RTX 3070 Ti, which features GPU core speed of 1575 MHz, and 8192 MB of GDDR6X RAM set to run at 1188 MHz through a 256-bit bus. It also is made up of 6144 SPUs, 192 TAUs, and 96 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 1060		120 Watts
GeForce RTX 3070 Ti		290 Watts
	Difference: 170 Watts (142%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the GeForce RTX 3070 Ti should perform a lot faster than the GeForce GTX 1060 in general. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3070 Ti		622899 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 1060		196608 MB/sec
	Difference: 426291 (217%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce RTX 3070 Ti is a lot (about 151%) better at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 1060. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3070 Ti		302400 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 1060		120480 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 181920 (151%)

Pixel Rate

If running with lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the GeForce RTX 3070 Ti is a better choice, and very much so. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3070 Ti		151200 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 1060		72288 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 78912 (109%)

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: Bandwidth is the largest amount of data (counted in megabytes per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface within a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR type memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the memory bandwidth, 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 amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed in one second. This is calculated 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 card can possibly write to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the number of ROPs by the clock 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 fill rate also depends on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.