GeForce RTX 3050 vs Radeon RX 550

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon RX 550, which comes with core speeds of 1100 MHz on the GPU, and 1750 MHz on the 2048 MB of GDDR5 memory. It features 512 SPUs as well as 32 TAUs and 16 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 550		50 Watts
GeForce RTX 3050		130 Watts
	Difference: 80 Watts (160%)

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the GeForce RTX 3050 should in theory be much better than the Radeon RX 550 in general. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3050		229376 MB/sec
Radeon RX 550		114688 MB/sec
	Difference: 114688 (100%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce RTX 3050 should be much (more or less 253%) better at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon RX 550. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3050		124160 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 550		35200 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 88960 (253%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce RTX 3050 should be much (more or less 182%) faster with regards to full screen anti-aliasing than the Radeon RX 550, and will be able to handle higher screen resolutions better. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3050		49664 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 550		17600 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 32064 (182%)

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 information (counted in megabytes per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface in one second. The number is worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the card's 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 can be processed per second. This is calculated by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the video card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics chip could possibly record to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the amount of Render Output Units by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel fill rate also depends on quite a few 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.