GeForce RTX 2080 vs GeForce RTX 3070 Ti

Intro

Compare those specifications to the GeForce RTX 3070 Ti, which makes use of a 8 nm design. nVidia has clocked the core speed at 1575 MHz. The GDDR6X memory is set to run at a frequency of 1188 MHz on this specific card. 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 2080		215 Watts
GeForce RTX 3070 Ti		290 Watts
	Difference: 75 Watts (35%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the GeForce RTX 3070 Ti should be much faster than the GeForce RTX 2080 in general. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3070 Ti		622899 MB/sec
GeForce RTX 2080		458752 MB/sec
	Difference: 164147 (36%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce RTX 3070 Ti should be just a bit (more or less 8%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce RTX 2080. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3070 Ti		302400 Mtexels/sec
GeForce RTX 2080		278760 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 23640 (8%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high screen resolution is important to you, then the GeForce RTX 3070 Ti is superior to the GeForce RTX 2080, by far. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3070 Ti		151200 Mpixels/sec
GeForce RTX 2080		96960 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 54240 (56%)

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 (in units of MB per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface in one second. It's worked out by multiplying the bus width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR type RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the 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 amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be applied per second. This is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics card could possibly write to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel output rate also depends on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.