GeForce GTX 1050 3GB vs GeForce RTX 2080

Intro

Compare those specifications to the GeForce RTX 2080, which has GPU clock speed of 1515 MHz, and 8192 MB of GDDR6 RAM running at 1750 MHz through a 256-bit bus. It also is comprised of 2944 Stream Processors, 184 TAUs, and 64 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 1050 3GB		75 Watts
GeForce RTX 2080		215 Watts
	Difference: 140 Watts (187%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the GeForce RTX 2080 should perform quite a bit faster than the GeForce GTX 1050 3GB in general. (explain)

GeForce RTX 2080		458752 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 1050 3GB		86016 MB/sec
	Difference: 372736 (433%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce RTX 2080 is much (approximately 317%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 1050 3GB. (explain)

GeForce RTX 2080		278760 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 1050 3GB		66816 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 211944 (317%)

Pixel Rate

If using high levels of AA is important to you, then the GeForce RTX 2080 is superior to the GeForce GTX 1050 3GB, by far. (explain)

GeForce RTX 2080		96960 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 1050 3GB		33408 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 63552 (190%)

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 maximum amount of information (counted in MB per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface within a second. It is calculated by multiplying the bus width by the speed of its memory. 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 faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that are processed per second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the graphics card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics card could possibly record to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the the card's clock speed. 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 quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.