GeForce RTX 3050 vs Radeon R9 295X2

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon R9 295X2, which has a clock frequency of 1018 MHz and a GDDR5 memory speed of 1250 MHz. It also makes use of a 512-bit memory bus, and uses a 28 nm design. It is made up of 2816 SPUs, 176 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 295X2		500 Watts
	Difference: 370 Watts (285%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon R9 295X2 should perform a lot faster than the GeForce RTX 3050 overall. (explain)

Radeon R9 295X2		640000 MB/sec
GeForce RTX 3050		229376 MB/sec
	Difference: 410624 (179%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 295X2 is much (about 189%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the GeForce RTX 3050. (explain)

Radeon R9 295X2		358336 Mtexels/sec
GeForce RTX 3050		124160 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 234176 (189%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon R9 295X2 is much (about 162%) better at FSAA than the GeForce RTX 3050, and able to handle higher resolutions without losing too much performance. (explain)

Radeon R9 295X2		130304 Mpixels/sec
GeForce RTX 3050		49664 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 80640 (162%)

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.

One or more cards in this comparison are multi-core. This means that their bandwidth, texel and pixel rates are theoretically doubled - this does not mean the card will actually perform twice as fast, but only that it should in theory be able to. Actual game benchmarks will give a more accurate idea of what it's capable of.

Price Comparison

Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the maximum amount of information (measured in megabytes per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface in a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the bus width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed in one 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 graphics card will be at handling 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 that the graphics chip can possibly record to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.