GeForce GTX 980 Ti vs GeForce RTX 3050

Intro

Compare that to the GeForce RTX 3050, which comes with clock speeds of 1552 MHz on the GPU, and 1750 MHz on the 8192 MB of GDDR6 memory. It features 2560 SPUs along with 80 TAUs and 32 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce RTX 3050		130 Watts
GeForce GTX 980 Ti		250 Watts
	Difference: 120 Watts (92%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the GeForce GTX 980 Ti should perform much faster than the GeForce RTX 3050 overall. (explain)

GeForce GTX 980 Ti		336000 MB/sec
GeForce RTX 3050		229376 MB/sec
	Difference: 106624 (46%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 980 Ti will be quite a bit (more or less 42%) better at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce RTX 3050. (explain)

GeForce GTX 980 Ti		176000 Mtexels/sec
GeForce RTX 3050		124160 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 51840 (42%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 980 Ti will be much (more or less 93%) faster with regards to full screen anti-aliasing than the GeForce RTX 3050, and also should be capable of handling higher resolutions without losing too much performance. (explain)

GeForce GTX 980 Ti		96000 Mpixels/sec
GeForce RTX 3050		49664 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 46336 (93%)

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the video card could possibly record to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel rate also depends on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.