GeForce GTX 1070 vs GeForce RTX 3060 Ti

Intro

Compare those specifications to the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti, which comes with GPU clock speed of 1410 MHz, and 8192 MB of GDDR6 RAM running at 1750 MHz through a 256-bit bus. It also is comprised of 4864 Stream Processors, 152 TAUs, and 80 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 1070		150 Watts
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti		200 Watts
	Difference: 50 Watts (33%)

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the GeForce GTX 1070 should theoretically be a bit better than the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti overall. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1070		262144 MB/sec
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti		(Unknown) MB/sec
	Difference: 262144 (-100%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce RTX 3060 Ti is a small bit (about 19%) better at texture filtering than the GeForce GTX 1070. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti		214320 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 1070		180720 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 33600 (19%)

Pixel Rate

If using high levels of AA is important to you, then the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti is superior to the GeForce GTX 1070, though not by far. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti		112800 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 1070		96384 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 16416 (17%)

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 (in units of MB per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface in one second. It is worked out by multiplying the interface width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 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, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that can be processed in one second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the video card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics chip could possibly write to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel output rate also depends on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.