GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER vs GeForce RTX 3070 Ti

Intro

Compare those specs to the GeForce RTX 3070 Ti, which comes with clock speeds of 1575 MHz on the GPU, and 1188 MHz on the 8192 MB of GDDR6X RAM. It features 6144 SPUs as well as 192 TAUs and 96 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER		250 Watts
GeForce RTX 3070 Ti		290 Watts
	Difference: 40 Watts (16%)

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the GeForce RTX 3070 Ti should theoretically be much better than the GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER overall. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3070 Ti		622899 MB/sec
GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER		507904 MB/sec
	Difference: 114995 (23%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER is a bit (about 5%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce RTX 3070 Ti. (explain)

GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER		316800 Mtexels/sec
GeForce RTX 3070 Ti		302400 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 14400 (5%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce RTX 3070 Ti will be quite a bit (about 43%) better at AA than the GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER, and also will be able to handle higher resolutions better. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3070 Ti		151200 Mpixels/sec
GeForce RTX 2080 SUPER		105600 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 45600 (43%)

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 max amount of data (counted in megabytes per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface in a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR memory, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that can be applied in one second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total texture units by the core speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the video card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the graphics card could possibly record to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel rate also depends on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.