GeForce RTX 2080 Ti vs GeForce RTX 3070 Ti

Intro

Compare all of that to the GeForce RTX 3070 Ti, which comes with core speeds of 1575 MHz on the GPU, and 1188 MHz on the 8192 MB of GDDR6X RAM. It features 6144 SPUs along with 192 Texture Address Units and 96 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce RTX 2080 Ti		250 Watts
GeForce RTX 3070 Ti		290 Watts
	Difference: 40 Watts (16%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the GeForce RTX 2080 Ti should be 1% faster than the GeForce RTX 3070 Ti in general, due to its greater data rate. (explain)

GeForce RTX 2080 Ti		630784 MB/sec
GeForce RTX 3070 Ti		622899 MB/sec
	Difference: 7885 (1%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce RTX 2080 Ti should be a lot (more or less 21%) more effective at AF than the GeForce RTX 3070 Ti. (explain)

GeForce RTX 2080 Ti		367200 Mtexels/sec
GeForce RTX 3070 Ti		302400 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 64800 (21%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high screen resolution is important to you, then the GeForce RTX 3070 Ti is a better choice, and very much so. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3070 Ti		151200 Mpixels/sec
GeForce RTX 2080 Ti		118800 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 32400 (27%)

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 data (counted in MB per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface in a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR type RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 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 AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics card can possibly write to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the number of ROPs by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel fill 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 maximum fill rate.