GeForce GTX 1070 vs GeForce RTX 3060 Ti

Intro

Compare all that to the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti, which features core clock speeds of 1410 MHz on the GPU, and 1750 MHz on the 8192 MB of GDDR6 memory. It features 4864 SPUs along with 152 Texture Address Units and 80 Rasterization Operator Units.

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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

Theoretically, the GeForce GTX 1070 should be a little bit faster than the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti in general. (explain)

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

Texel Rate

The GeForce RTX 3060 Ti should be a bit (about 19%) more effective 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

The GeForce RTX 3060 Ti is a little bit (more or less 17%) faster with regards to anti-aliasing than the GeForce GTX 1070, and should be capable of handling higher resolutions more effectively. (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 (counted in megabytes per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface in a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the interface width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR memory, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed per second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the graphics card will be at 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 video card could possibly record to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also 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, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.