GeForce RTX 3050 vs Radeon RX 570

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon RX 570, which uses a 14 nm design. AMD has set the core speed at 1168 MHz. The GDDR5 memory is set to run at a speed of 1750 MHz on this model. It features 2048 SPUs as well as 128 TAUs and 32 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce RTX 3050		130 Watts
Radeon RX 570		150 Watts
	Difference: 20 Watts (15%)

Memory Bandwidth

Both cards have the exact same bandwidth, so in theory they should have identical performance. (explain)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 570 is a little bit (approximately 20%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the GeForce RTX 3050. (explain)

Radeon RX 570		149504 Mtexels/sec
GeForce RTX 3050		124160 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 25344 (20%)

Pixel Rate

If using lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the GeForce RTX 3050 is the winner, by far. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3050		49664 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 570		37376 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 12288 (33%)

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 (counted in megabytes per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface in one second. The number is calculated by multiplying the interface width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR memory, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range 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 speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the card will be at 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 could possibly record to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the number of ROPs by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called 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, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.