GeForce RTX 3070 Ti vs GeForce RTX 4090

Intro

Compare that to the GeForce RTX 4090, which has core speeds of 2235 MHz on the GPU, and 1325 MHz on the 24576 MB of GDDR6X RAM. It features 16384 SPUs along with 512 Texture Address Units and 176 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce RTX 3070 Ti		290 Watts
GeForce RTX 4090		450 Watts
	Difference: 160 Watts (55%)

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the GeForce RTX 4090 should in theory be quite a bit superior to the GeForce RTX 3070 Ti in general. (explain)

GeForce RTX 4090		1042432 MB/sec
GeForce RTX 3070 Ti		622899 MB/sec
	Difference: 419533 (67%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce RTX 4090 should be much (more or less 278%) better at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce RTX 3070 Ti. (explain)

GeForce RTX 4090		1144320 Mtexels/sec
GeForce RTX 3070 Ti		302400 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 841920 (278%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high screen resolution is important to you, then the GeForce RTX 4090 is a better choice, by a large margin. (explain)

GeForce RTX 4090		393360 Mpixels/sec
GeForce RTX 3070 Ti		151200 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 242160 (160%)

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 max amount of data (in units of MB per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface in one second. It is calculated by multiplying the interface width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR memory, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the card's 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 texture map elements (texels) that are processed per second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core clock 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 processed in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the graphics card can possibly write to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number 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 fill rate is also dependant on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.