GeForce RTX 3050 vs Radeon R9 380 4G

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon R9 380 4G, which comes with core speeds of 970 MHz on the GPU, and 1425 MHz on the 4096 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 1792 SPUs as well as 112 Texture Address Units and 32 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce RTX 3050		130 Watts
Radeon R9 380 4G		190 Watts
	Difference: 60 Watts (46%)

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the GeForce RTX 3050 should theoretically be a lot superior to the Radeon R9 380 4G in general. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3050		229376 MB/sec
Radeon R9 380 4G		182400 MB/sec
	Difference: 46976 (26%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce RTX 3050 is just a bit (approximately 14%) better at texture filtering than the Radeon R9 380 4G. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3050		124160 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R9 380 4G		108640 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 15520 (14%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high resolution is important to you, then the GeForce RTX 3050 is superior to the Radeon R9 380 4G, and very much so. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3050		49664 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 380 4G		31040 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 18624 (60%)

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 maximum amount of data (counted in MB per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface in a second. It's worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that are applied per second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total number of 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 per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics chip can possibly record to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the number of ROPs by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel fill rate also depends on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.