GeForce RTX 3070 Ti vs Radeon HD 7990

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon HD 7990, which comes with core clock speeds of 950 MHz on the GPU, and 1500 MHz on the 3072 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 2048 SPUs as well as 128 TAUs and 32 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce RTX 3070 Ti		290 Watts
Radeon HD 7990		375 Watts
	Difference: 85 Watts (29%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the GeForce RTX 3070 Ti should be a small bit faster than the Radeon HD 7990 in general. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3070 Ti		622899 MB/sec
Radeon HD 7990		576000 MB/sec
	Difference: 46899 (8%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce RTX 3070 Ti will be quite a bit (more or less 24%) more effective at texture filtering than the Radeon HD 7990. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3070 Ti		302400 Mtexels/sec
Radeon HD 7990		243200 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 59200 (24%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce RTX 3070 Ti will be much (about 149%) better at FSAA than the Radeon HD 7990, and also will be able to handle higher resolutions better. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3070 Ti		151200 Mpixels/sec
Radeon HD 7990		60800 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 90400 (149%)

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.

One or more cards in this comparison are multi-core. This means that their bandwidth, texel and pixel rates are theoretically doubled - this does not mean the card will actually perform twice as fast, but only that it should in theory be able to. Actual game benchmarks will give a more accurate idea of what it's capable of.

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Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the largest amount of information (counted in megabytes per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface in one second. It's worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR type memory, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be applied in one second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total 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 one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the video card can possibly write to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). 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 reach the max fill rate.