GeForce RTX 3050 vs Radeon R9 280

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon R9 280, which has core speeds of 933 MHz on the GPU, and 1250 MHz on the 3072 MB of GDDR5 memory. It features 1792 SPUs as well as 112 TAUs 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 280		250 Watts
	Difference: 120 Watts (92%)

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the Radeon R9 280 should theoretically be a small bit superior to the GeForce RTX 3050 overall. (explain)

Radeon R9 280		240000 MB/sec
GeForce RTX 3050		229376 MB/sec
	Difference: 10624 (5%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce RTX 3050 should be just a bit (about 19%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the Radeon R9 280. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3050		124160 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R9 280		104496 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 19664 (19%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce RTX 3050 will be much (approximately 66%) better at anti-aliasing than the Radeon R9 280, and should be capable of handling higher screen resolutions while still performing well. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3050		49664 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 280		29856 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 19808 (66%)

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 (counted in megabytes per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface in one second. It is calculated by multiplying the interface width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR type RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that are processed in one second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the graphics card could possibly record to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the amount of ROPs 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 quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.