GeForce RTX 2080 Ti vs GeForce RTX 3050

Intro

Compare those specifications to the GeForce RTX 3050, which comes with core clock speeds of 1552 MHz on the GPU, and 1750 MHz on the 8192 MB of GDDR6 RAM. It features 2560 SPUs along with 80 TAUs and 32 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce RTX 3050		130 Watts
GeForce RTX 2080 Ti		250 Watts
	Difference: 120 Watts (92%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically, the GeForce RTX 2080 Ti should perform much faster than the GeForce RTX 3050 overall. (explain)

GeForce RTX 2080 Ti		630784 MB/sec
GeForce RTX 3050		229376 MB/sec
	Difference: 401408 (175%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce RTX 2080 Ti should be a lot (more or less 196%) more effective at texture filtering than the GeForce RTX 3050. (explain)

GeForce RTX 2080 Ti		367200 Mtexels/sec
GeForce RTX 3050		124160 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 243040 (196%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce RTX 2080 Ti will be quite a bit (about 139%) better at anti-aliasing than the GeForce RTX 3050, and also should be capable of handling higher resolutions while still performing well. (explain)

GeForce RTX 2080 Ti		118800 Mpixels/sec
GeForce RTX 3050		49664 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 69136 (139%)

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 data (counted in MB per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface in one second. It is worked out by multiplying the bus width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR type RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR 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 texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the 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 that the graphics card can possibly write to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.