GeForce RTX 3050 vs Geforce GTX 1080 Ti

Intro

Compare all of that to the Geforce GTX 1080 Ti, which comes with clock speeds of 1480 MHz on the GPU, and 1376 MHz on the 11264 MB of GDDR5X memory. It features 3584 SPUs along with 224 Texture Address Units and 88 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce RTX 3050		130 Watts
Geforce GTX 1080 Ti		250 Watts
	Difference: 120 Watts (92%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Geforce GTX 1080 Ti, in theory, should be a lot faster than the GeForce RTX 3050 overall. (explain)

Geforce GTX 1080 Ti		495616 MB/sec
GeForce RTX 3050		229376 MB/sec
	Difference: 266240 (116%)

Texel Rate

The Geforce GTX 1080 Ti will be a lot (more or less 167%) more effective at texture filtering than the GeForce RTX 3050. (explain)

Geforce GTX 1080 Ti		331520 Mtexels/sec
GeForce RTX 3050		124160 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 207360 (167%)

Pixel Rate

The Geforce GTX 1080 Ti should be much (approximately 162%) faster with regards to full screen anti-aliasing than the GeForce RTX 3050, and also should be able to handle higher resolutions while still performing well. (explain)

Geforce GTX 1080 Ti		130240 Mpixels/sec
GeForce RTX 3050		49664 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 80576 (162%)

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 largest amount of data (measured in MB per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface within a second. It's worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the bandwidth is, 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 are applied per second. This is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the graphics 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 most pixels that the graphics chip can possibly record to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the number of ROPs by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.