GeForce RTX 3050 vs Radeon R7 240

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon R7 240, which uses a 28 nm design. AMD has set the core speed at 730 MHz. The DDR3 memory works at a frequency of 900 MHz on this specific card. It features 320 SPUs along with 20 TAUs and 8 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R7 240		30 Watts
GeForce RTX 3050		130 Watts
	Difference: 100 Watts (333%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically, the GeForce RTX 3050 should perform much faster than the Radeon R7 240 in general. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3050		229376 MB/sec
Radeon R7 240		28800 MB/sec
	Difference: 200576 (696%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce RTX 3050 will be a lot (approximately 750%) better at texture filtering than the Radeon R7 240. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3050		124160 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 240		14600 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 109560 (750%)

Pixel Rate

If running with lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the GeForce RTX 3050 is the winner, and very much so. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3050		49664 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 240		5840 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 43824 (750%)

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 (in units of megabytes per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface in a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the interface width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that are applied per second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total texture units of the card 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 processed in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics card could possibly record to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.