GeForce GTX 1060 vs GeForce RTX 4070 Ti

Intro

Compare all that to the GeForce RTX 4070 Ti, which features a GPU core clock speed of 2310 MHz, and 12288 MB of GDDR6X RAM set to run at 1313 MHz through a 192-bit bus. It also is made up of 7680 Stream Processors, 240 Texture Address Units, and 80 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 1060		120 Watts
GeForce RTX 4070 Ti		285 Watts
	Difference: 165 Watts (138%)

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the GeForce RTX 4070 Ti should theoretically be a lot superior to the GeForce GTX 1060 in general. (explain)

GeForce RTX 4070 Ti		516096 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 1060		196608 MB/sec
	Difference: 319488 (163%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce RTX 4070 Ti is quite a bit (about 360%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 1060. (explain)

GeForce RTX 4070 Ti		554400 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 1060		120480 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 433920 (360%)

Pixel Rate

If running with high levels of AA is important to you, then the GeForce RTX 4070 Ti is the winner, by a large margin. (explain)

GeForce RTX 4070 Ti		184800 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 1060		72288 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 112512 (156%)

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 maximum amount of information (counted in megabytes per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface in one second. It's worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR type RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the 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 applied in one second. This figure 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 graphics card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the video card can possibly record to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the amount 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 rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.