GeForce GTX 1060 vs GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB

Intro

Compare those specs to the GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB, which uses a 8 nm design. nVidia has set the core speed at 1260 MHz. The GDDR6X RAM runs at a frequency of 1188 MHz on this particular card. It features 8960 SPUs as well as 280 Texture Address Units and 112 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 1060		120 Watts
GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB		350 Watts
	Difference: 230 Watts (192%)

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB, in theory, should be much faster than the GeForce GTX 1060 overall. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB		934298 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 1060		196608 MB/sec
	Difference: 737690 (375%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB will be quite a bit (more or less 193%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 1060. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB		352800 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 1060		120480 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 232320 (193%)

Pixel Rate

If running with high levels of AA is important to you, then the GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB is superior to the GeForce GTX 1060, by a large margin. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3080 12 GB		141120 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 1060		72288 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 68832 (95%)

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 information (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface in one second. It's worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, 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 worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the video card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the video card can possibly write to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.