GeForce RTX 3050 vs Radeon R7 250X

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon R7 250X, which uses a 28 nm design. AMD has clocked the core speed at 1000 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM works at a speed of 1125 MHz on this specific card. It features 640 SPUs along with 40 TAUs and 16 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R7 250X		95 Watts
GeForce RTX 3050		130 Watts
	Difference: 35 Watts (37%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the GeForce RTX 3050 should be a lot faster than the Radeon R7 250X in general. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3050		229376 MB/sec
Radeon R7 250X		72000 MB/sec
	Difference: 157376 (219%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce RTX 3050 will be a lot (about 210%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the Radeon R7 250X. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3050		124160 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 250X		40000 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 84160 (210%)

Pixel Rate

If using lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the GeForce RTX 3050 is the winner, by a large margin. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3050		49664 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 250X		16000 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 33664 (210%)

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 maximum amount of data (counted in MB per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface within a second. It's calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR type RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the graphics card could possibly write to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel output rate also depends on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.