GeForce GTX 980 Ti vs GeForce RTX 3050

Intro

Compare those specifications to the GeForce RTX 3050, which has 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

The GeForce GTX 980 Ti should theoretically perform much faster than the GeForce RTX 3050 in general. (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 a lot (about 42%) more effective 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 should be a lot (about 93%) faster with regards to full screen anti-aliasing than the GeForce RTX 3050, and should be capable of handling higher screen 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: Bandwidth is the max amount of information (measured in MB per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface in one second. It's worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR type memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that can be processed in one second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the 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 could possibly record to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel rate also depends on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.