GeForce RTX 3070 vs GeForce RTX 4070 Ti

Intro

Compare those specs to the GeForce RTX 4070 Ti, which uses a 4 nm design. nVidia has set the core speed at 2310 MHz. The GDDR6X RAM works at a frequency of 1313 MHz on this particular model. It features 7680 SPUs as well as 240 TAUs and 80 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce RTX 3070		220 Watts
GeForce RTX 4070 Ti		285 Watts
	Difference: 65 Watts (30%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the GeForce RTX 4070 Ti should perform just a bit faster than the GeForce RTX 3070 overall. (explain)

GeForce RTX 4070 Ti		516096 MB/sec
GeForce RTX 3070		(Unknown) MB/sec
	Difference: 516096 (-100%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce RTX 4070 Ti should be quite a bit (about 101%) better at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce RTX 3070. (explain)

GeForce RTX 4070 Ti		554400 Mtexels/sec
GeForce RTX 3070		276000 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 278400 (101%)

Pixel Rate

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

GeForce RTX 4070 Ti		184800 Mpixels/sec
GeForce RTX 3070		144000 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 40800 (28%)

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 information (measured in 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 its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. 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 texture map elements (texels) that are processed per second. This is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the graphics 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 could possibly record to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the amount of Render Output Units by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel rate is also dependant 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 max fill rate.