GeForce RTX 3060 Ti vs GeForce RTX 3070

Intro

Compare all of that to the GeForce RTX 3070, which makes use of a 8 nm design. nVidia has clocked the core speed at 1500 MHz. The GDDR6 memory runs at a frequency of 1750 MHz on this particular model. It features 5888 SPUs as well as 184 TAUs and 96 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti		200 Watts
GeForce RTX 3070		220 Watts
	Difference: 20 Watts (10%)

Memory Bandwidth

Both cards have exactly the same bandwidth, so in theory they should have identical performance. (explain)

Texel Rate

The GeForce RTX 3070 is quite a bit (about 29%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3070		276000 Mtexels/sec
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti		214320 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 61680 (29%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce RTX 3070 will be a lot (approximately 28%) faster with regards to anti-aliasing than the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti, and also able to handle higher resolutions better. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3070		144000 Mpixels/sec
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti		112800 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 31200 (28%)

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 (in units of MB per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface in a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the interface width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR memory, it should 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, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

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

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