GeForce RTX 3080 Ti vs GeForce RTX 3090

Intro

Compare those specs to the GeForce RTX 3090, which makes use of a 8 nm design. nVidia has clocked the core speed at 1395 MHz. The GDDR6X RAM runs at a speed of 1219 MHz on this specific card. It features 10496 SPUs as well as 328 TAUs and 112 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Both cards have the same power consumption.

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the GeForce RTX 3090 should perform a bit faster than the GeForce RTX 3080 Ti in general. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3090		958668 MB/sec
GeForce RTX 3080 Ti		934297 MB/sec
	Difference: 24371 (3%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce RTX 3090 will be a bit (more or less 5%) more effective at AF than the GeForce RTX 3080 Ti. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3090		457560 Mtexels/sec
GeForce RTX 3080 Ti		436800 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 20760 (5%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high screen resolution is important to you, then the GeForce RTX 3090 is superior to the GeForce RTX 3080 Ti, not by a very large margin though. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3090		156240 Mpixels/sec
GeForce RTX 3080 Ti		152880 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 3360 (2%)

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 largest amount of data (counted in MB per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface in one second. It is worked out by multiplying the bus width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that are applied per second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total number 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 applied per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the graphics card could possibly write to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel output rate also depends on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.