GeForce GTX 1070 Ti vs GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER

Intro

The GeForce GTX 1070 Ti makes use of a 16 nm design. nVidia has set the core frequency at 1607 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM runs at a frequency of 2000 MHz on this particular model. It features 2432 SPUs as well as 152 Texture Address Units and 64 Rasterization Operator Units.

Compare those specifications to the GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER, which comes with a GPU core clock speed of 1650 MHz, and 8192 MB of GDDR6 memory set to run at 1937 MHz through a 256-bit bus. It also is comprised of 3072 SPUs, 192 Texture Address Units, and 64 ROPs.

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Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the maximum amount of information (counted in MB per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface in one second. It is calculated by multiplying the bus width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR type memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the memory bandwidth, the better 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 texture map elements (texels) that can be applied per second. This is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units 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 processed in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the video card can possibly record to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.