GeForce RTX 3070 Ti vs GeForce RTX 4070 Ti

Intro

Compare those specifications to the GeForce RTX 4070 Ti, which has a core clock frequency of 2310 MHz and a GDDR6X memory frequency of 1313 MHz. It also uses a 192-bit bus, and makes use of a 4 nm design. It features 7680 SPUs, 240 Texture Address Units, and 80 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce RTX 4070 Ti		285 Watts
GeForce RTX 3070 Ti		290 Watts
	Difference: 5 Watts (2%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically, the GeForce RTX 3070 Ti should perform much faster than the GeForce RTX 4070 Ti overall. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3070 Ti		622899 MB/sec
GeForce RTX 4070 Ti		516096 MB/sec
	Difference: 106803 (21%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce RTX 4070 Ti is quite a bit (approximately 83%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the GeForce RTX 3070 Ti. (explain)

GeForce RTX 4070 Ti		554400 Mtexels/sec
GeForce RTX 3070 Ti		302400 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 252000 (83%)

Pixel Rate

If running with lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the GeForce RTX 4070 Ti is superior to the GeForce RTX 3070 Ti, by a large margin. (explain)

GeForce RTX 4070 Ti		184800 Mpixels/sec
GeForce RTX 3070 Ti		151200 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 33600 (22%)

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 (measured in MB per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface within a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that are processed in one second. This is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the video 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 most pixels that the graphics card could possibly write to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the number of ROPs by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel output rate also depends on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.