GeForce RTX 3060 vs GeForce RTX 3080 Ti

Intro

Compare all that to the GeForce RTX 3080 Ti, which uses a 8 nm design. nVidia has clocked the core frequency at 1365 MHz. The GDDR6X memory works at a frequency of 1188 MHz on this particular card. It features 10240 SPUs along with 320 Texture Address Units and 112 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce RTX 3060		170 Watts
GeForce RTX 3080 Ti		350 Watts
	Difference: 180 Watts (106%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the GeForce RTX 3080 Ti should perform much faster than the GeForce RTX 3060 in general. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti		934297 MB/sec
GeForce RTX 3060		368640 MB/sec
	Difference: 565657 (153%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce RTX 3080 Ti should be quite a bit (approximately 195%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the GeForce RTX 3060. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti		436800 Mtexels/sec
GeForce RTX 3060		147840 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 288960 (195%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce RTX 3080 Ti should be a lot (more or less 141%) better at AA than the GeForce RTX 3060, and should be able to handle higher resolutions without slowing down too much. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti		152880 Mpixels/sec
GeForce RTX 3060		63360 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 89520 (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: Bandwidth is the largest amount of information (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface in a second. It is worked out by multiplying the bus width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that can be applied in one second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the graphics 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 the video card could possibly write to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the amount of Render Output Units by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel rate also depends on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.