GeForce RTX 2080 Ti vs GeForce RTX 3070 Ti

Intro

Compare all of that to the GeForce RTX 3070 Ti, which features GPU core speed of 1575 MHz, and 8192 MB of GDDR6X RAM running at 1188 MHz through a 256-bit bus. It also features 6144 Stream Processors, 192 TAUs, and 96 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce RTX 2080 Ti		250 Watts
GeForce RTX 3070 Ti		290 Watts
	Difference: 40 Watts (16%)

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce RTX 2080 Ti, in theory, should perform a little bit faster than the GeForce RTX 3070 Ti in general. (explain)

GeForce RTX 2080 Ti		630784 MB/sec
GeForce RTX 3070 Ti		622899 MB/sec
	Difference: 7885 (1%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce RTX 2080 Ti is a lot (more or less 21%) more effective at texture filtering than the GeForce RTX 3070 Ti. (explain)

GeForce RTX 2080 Ti		367200 Mtexels/sec
GeForce RTX 3070 Ti		302400 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 64800 (21%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce RTX 3070 Ti will be quite a bit (approximately 27%) better at anti-aliasing than the GeForce RTX 2080 Ti, and should be able to handle higher screen resolutions better. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3070 Ti		151200 Mpixels/sec
GeForce RTX 2080 Ti		118800 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 32400 (27%)

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 data (in units of megabytes per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface in a second. It's worked out by multiplying the interface width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that are applied per second. This is calculated by multiplying the total number 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 maximum amount of pixels the graphics card could possibly write to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the the core 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 output rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.