GeForce RTX 3050 vs Radeon R9 270

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon R9 270, which has GPU core speed of 900 MHz, and 2048 MB of GDDR5 RAM set to run at 1400 MHz through a 256-bit bus. It also is made up of 1280 Stream Processors, 80 TAUs, and 32 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce RTX 3050		130 Watts
Radeon R9 270		150 Watts
	Difference: 20 Watts (15%)

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce RTX 3050 should theoretically perform quite a bit faster than the Radeon R9 270 in general. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3050		229376 MB/sec
Radeon R9 270		179200 MB/sec
	Difference: 50176 (28%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce RTX 3050 is much (approximately 72%) faster with regards to AF than the Radeon R9 270. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3050		124160 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R9 270		72000 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 52160 (72%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce RTX 3050 will be a lot (about 72%) better at full screen anti-aliasing than the Radeon R9 270, and also should be capable of handling higher screen resolutions more effectively. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3050		49664 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 270		28800 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 20864 (72%)

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 information (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface in one second. It is worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics chip can possibly record to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.