GeForce RTX 3050 vs Radeon R9 390 8G

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon R9 390 8G, which comes with GPU core speed of 1000 MHz, and 8192 MB of GDDR5 RAM set to run at 1500 MHz through a 512-bit bus. It also is comprised of 2560 Stream Processors, 160 Texture Address Units, and 64 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce RTX 3050		130 Watts
Radeon R9 390 8G		275 Watts
	Difference: 145 Watts (112%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon R9 390 8G should perform quite a bit faster than the GeForce RTX 3050 overall. (explain)

Radeon R9 390 8G		384000 MB/sec
GeForce RTX 3050		229376 MB/sec
	Difference: 154624 (67%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 390 8G is a lot (about 29%) better at AF than the GeForce RTX 3050. (explain)

Radeon R9 390 8G		160000 Mtexels/sec
GeForce RTX 3050		124160 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 35840 (29%)

Pixel Rate

If using high levels of AA is important to you, then the Radeon R9 390 8G is a better choice, and very much so. (explain)

Radeon R9 390 8G		64000 Mpixels/sec
GeForce RTX 3050		49664 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 14336 (29%)

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 data (measured in MB per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface within a second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR type RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the memory bandwidth, the faster 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 can be processed per second. This is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the graphics card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics card can possibly write to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel output rate is also dependant 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 max fill rate.