GeForce RTX 3050 vs Radeon RX 550

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon RX 550, which comes with a clock speed of 1100 MHz and a GDDR5 memory speed of 1750 MHz. It also makes use of a 128-bit bus, and uses a 14 nm design. It is comprised of 512 SPUs, 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

Performance-wise, the GeForce RTX 3050 should in theory be a lot superior to the Radeon RX 550 overall. (explain)

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

Texel Rate

The GeForce RTX 3050 is quite a bit (more or less 253%) faster with regards to AF than the Radeon RX 550. (explain)

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

Pixel Rate

If running with high levels of AA is important to you, then the GeForce RTX 3050 is the winner, by far. (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: Memory bandwidth is the max amount of information (measured in MB per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface in a second. It's calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR type RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that can be applied in one second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the 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 the video card can possibly record to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the clock speed of the card. 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 quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.