GeForce RTX 3060 Ti vs GeForce RTX 3080 Ti

Intro

Compare all that to the GeForce RTX 3080 Ti, which has GPU core speed of 1365 MHz, and 12288 MB of GDDR6X memory set to run at 1188 MHz through a 384-bit bus. It also is made up of 10240 Stream Processors, 320 Texture Address Units, and 112 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti		200 Watts
GeForce RTX 3080 Ti		350 Watts
	Difference: 150 Watts (75%)

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the GeForce RTX 3080 Ti should theoretically be a small bit better than the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti overall. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti		934297 MB/sec
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti		(Unknown) MB/sec
	Difference: 934297 (-100%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce RTX 3080 Ti is much (more or less 104%) better at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti		436800 Mtexels/sec
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti		214320 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 222480 (104%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce RTX 3080 Ti is much (more or less 36%) more effective at full screen anti-aliasing than the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti, and also capable of handling higher screen resolutions without slowing down too much. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti		152880 Mpixels/sec
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti		112800 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 40080 (36%)

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 maximum amount of data (counted in megabytes per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface in a second. It is calculated by multiplying the bus width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR type memory, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, 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 number of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed per second. This is worked out by multiplying the total texture units by the core speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the video card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the video card can possibly write to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the the core clock speed. 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, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.