GeForce RTX 3060 Ti vs GeForce RTX 3070 Ti

Intro

Compare all that to the GeForce RTX 3070 Ti, which comes with a core clock frequency of 1575 MHz and a GDDR6X memory speed of 1188 MHz. It also features a 256-bit bus, and uses a 8 nm design. It features 6144 SPUs, 192 Texture Address Units, and 96 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti		200 Watts
GeForce RTX 3070 Ti		290 Watts
	Difference: 90 Watts (45%)

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce RTX 3070 Ti should in theory be a small bit faster than the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti in general. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3070 Ti		622899 MB/sec
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti		(Unknown) MB/sec
	Difference: 622899 (-100%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce RTX 3070 Ti is much (about 41%) faster with regards to AF than the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3070 Ti		302400 Mtexels/sec
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti		214320 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 88080 (41%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high resolution is important to you, then the GeForce RTX 3070 Ti is superior to the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti, by a large margin. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3070 Ti		151200 Mpixels/sec
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti		112800 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 38400 (34%)

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 data (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface within a second. It is calculated by multiplying the bus width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that are 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 one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the graphics card can possibly write to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the amount of Render Output Units by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.