GeForce RTX 3050 vs Radeon RX 580

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon RX 580, which makes use of a 14 nm design. AMD has clocked the core frequency at 1257 MHz. The GDDR5 memory works at a speed of 2000 MHz on this card. It features 2304 SPUs as well as 144 TAUs and 32 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce RTX 3050		130 Watts
Radeon RX 580		185 Watts
	Difference: 55 Watts (42%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon RX 580 should theoretically be a bit faster than the GeForce RTX 3050 in general. (explain)

Radeon RX 580		262144 MB/sec
GeForce RTX 3050		229376 MB/sec
	Difference: 32768 (14%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 580 is quite a bit (about 46%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the GeForce RTX 3050. (explain)

Radeon RX 580		181008 Mtexels/sec
GeForce RTX 3050		124160 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 56848 (46%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce RTX 3050 is quite a bit (more or less 23%) more effective at full screen anti-aliasing than the Radeon RX 580, and also will be able to handle higher screen resolutions without slowing down too much. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3050		49664 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 580		40224 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 9440 (23%)

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 max amount of data (counted in megabytes per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface in one second. The number is worked out by multiplying the bus width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the 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 are applied per second. This is worked out by multiplying the total texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher 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 can possibly write to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes 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, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.