GeForce GTX 1050 3GB vs GeForce RTX 3050

Intro

Compare all that to the GeForce RTX 3050, which comes with GPU clock speed of 1552 MHz, and 8192 MB of GDDR6 memory set to run at 1750 MHz through a 128-bit bus. It also is made up of 2560 Stream Processors, 80 Texture Address Units, and 32 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 1050 3GB		75 Watts
GeForce RTX 3050		130 Watts
	Difference: 55 Watts (73%)

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the GeForce RTX 3050 should in theory be a lot better than the GeForce GTX 1050 3GB in general. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3050		229376 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 1050 3GB		86016 MB/sec
	Difference: 143360 (167%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce RTX 3050 will be a lot (more or less 86%) better at AF than the GeForce GTX 1050 3GB. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3050		124160 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 1050 3GB		66816 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 57344 (86%)

Pixel Rate

If using high levels of AA is important to you, then the GeForce RTX 3050 is the winner, by a large margin. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3050		49664 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 1050 3GB		33408 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 16256 (49%)

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 (measured in MB per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface in a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the bus width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR type RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the bandwidth is, the faster 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 processed in one second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total 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 texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the graphics card could possibly record to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the number of colour 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 output rate also depends on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.