GeForce RTX 3060 Ti vs GeForce RTX 4070 Ti

Intro

Compare that to the GeForce RTX 4070 Ti, which features a GPU core clock speed of 2310 MHz, and 12288 MB of GDDR6X memory set to run at 1313 MHz through a 192-bit bus. It also is comprised of 7680 SPUs, 240 TAUs, and 80 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti		200 Watts
GeForce RTX 4070 Ti		285 Watts
	Difference: 85 Watts (43%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the GeForce RTX 4070 Ti should perform a bit faster than the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti in general. (explain)

GeForce RTX 4070 Ti		516096 MB/sec
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti		(Unknown) MB/sec
	Difference: 516096 (-100%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce RTX 4070 Ti is quite a bit (more or less 159%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti. (explain)

GeForce RTX 4070 Ti		554400 Mtexels/sec
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti		214320 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 340080 (159%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high resolution is important to you, then the GeForce RTX 4070 Ti is a better choice, by far. (explain)

GeForce RTX 4070 Ti		184800 Mpixels/sec
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti		112800 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 72000 (64%)

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: Memory bandwidth is the max amount of information (in units of megabytes per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface within a second. It's calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR type memory, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the card's memory bandwidth, 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 number of texture map elements (texels) that can be applied in one second. This is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the video card can possibly record to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel fill rate also depends on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.