GeForce GTX 1070 Ti vs GeForce RTX 3080 Ti

Intro

Compare those specs to the GeForce RTX 3080 Ti, which comes with core speeds of 1365 MHz on the GPU, and 1188 MHz on the 12288 MB of GDDR6X RAM. It features 10240 SPUs along with 320 Texture Address Units and 112 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 1070 Ti		180 Watts
GeForce RTX 3080 Ti		350 Watts
	Difference: 170 Watts (94%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically, the GeForce RTX 3080 Ti should perform a lot faster than the GeForce GTX 1070 Ti in general. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti		934297 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 1070 Ti		262144 MB/sec
	Difference: 672153 (256%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce RTX 3080 Ti should be much (more or less 79%) better at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 1070 Ti. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti		436800 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 1070 Ti		244264 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 192536 (79%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high screen resolution is important to you, then the GeForce RTX 3080 Ti is a better choice, by far. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3080 Ti		152880 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 1070 Ti		102848 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 50032 (49%)

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 largest amount of data (in units of MB per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface in a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the bus width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed per second. This is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the video card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the graphics card can possibly record 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 clock speed of the card. 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 fill rate also depends on quite a few 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.