GeForce GTX 1070 vs GeForce RTX 3060 Ti

Intro

Compare those specifications to the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti, which has clock speeds of 1410 MHz on the GPU, and 1750 MHz on the 8192 MB of GDDR6 RAM. It features 4864 SPUs as well as 152 TAUs 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 perform a little bit faster 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 little bit (approximately 19%) more effective at AF 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 should be a little bit (approximately 17%) more effective at full screen anti-aliasing than the GeForce GTX 1070, and capable of handling higher screen resolutions better. (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: Memory bandwidth is the max amount of information (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface within a second. It is worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR type RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the card's 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 number of texture map elements (texels) that are processed in one second. This is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics card can possibly record to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the amount of Render Output Units by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel fill rate also depends on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.