GeForce GTX 1070 Ti vs GeForce RTX 3060

Intro

Compare those specifications to the GeForce RTX 3060, which comes with clock speeds of 1320 MHz on the GPU, and 1875 MHz on the (Unknown) MB of GDDR6 RAM. It features 3584 SPUs as well as 112 Texture Address Units and 48 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce RTX 3060		170 Watts
GeForce GTX 1070 Ti		180 Watts
	Difference: 10 Watts (6%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the GeForce RTX 3060 should be much faster than the GeForce GTX 1070 Ti overall. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3060		368640 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 1070 Ti		262144 MB/sec
	Difference: 106496 (41%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1070 Ti will be much (approximately 65%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce RTX 3060. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1070 Ti		244264 Mtexels/sec
GeForce RTX 3060		147840 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 96424 (65%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high resolution is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 1070 Ti is the winner, by a large margin. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1070 Ti		102848 Mpixels/sec
GeForce RTX 3060		63360 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 39488 (62%)

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 information (counted in MB per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface within a second. It's calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR type RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that can be applied in one second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The better this number, 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 write to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel rate also depends on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.