GeForce RTX 3050 vs Radeon R9 Fury X

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon R9 Fury X, which features GPU clock speed of 1050 MHz, and 4096 MB of HBM memory running at 500 MHz through a 4096-bit bus. It also is comprised of 4096 Stream Processors, 256 Texture Address Units, and 64 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce RTX 3050		130 Watts
Radeon R9 Fury X		275 Watts
	Difference: 145 Watts (112%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon R9 Fury X will be 123% faster than the GeForce RTX 3050 overall, because of its higher bandwidth. (explain)

Radeon R9 Fury X		512000 MB/sec
GeForce RTX 3050		229376 MB/sec
	Difference: 282624 (123%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 Fury X is a lot (more or less 116%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the GeForce RTX 3050. (explain)

Radeon R9 Fury X		268800 Mtexels/sec
GeForce RTX 3050		124160 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 144640 (116%)

Pixel Rate

If running with high levels of AA is important to you, then the Radeon R9 Fury X is a better choice, by a large margin. (explain)

Radeon R9 Fury X		67200 Mpixels/sec
GeForce RTX 3050		49664 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 17536 (35%)

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 megabytes per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface in a second. It's calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that are processed per second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the video card can possibly record to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the the card's 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 reach the max fill rate.