GeForce RTX 3060 Ti vs GeForce RTX 3070 Ti

Intro

Compare those specifications to the GeForce RTX 3070 Ti, which features core 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 3060 Ti		200 Watts
GeForce RTX 3070 Ti		290 Watts
	Difference: 90 Watts (45%)

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the GeForce RTX 3070 Ti should in theory be a bit better than the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti in general. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3070 Ti		622899 MB/sec
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti		(Unknown) MB/sec
	Difference: 622899 (-100%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce RTX 3070 Ti will be a lot (approximately 41%) more effective at texture filtering than the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3070 Ti		302400 Mtexels/sec
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti		214320 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 88080 (41%)

Pixel Rate

If running with high levels of AA is important to you, then the GeForce RTX 3070 Ti is superior to the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti, by a large margin. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3070 Ti		151200 Mpixels/sec
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti		112800 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 38400 (34%)

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 (counted in megabytes per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface within a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the bus width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR type memory, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed in one second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, 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 maximum number of pixels the graphics card can possibly write to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel output rate is also dependant 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.