GeForce RTX 3050 vs Radeon HD 6990

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon HD 6990, which uses a 40 nm design. AMD has set the core frequency at 830 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM runs at a frequency of 1250 MHz on this particular card. It features 1536 SPUs along with 96 TAUs and 32 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce RTX 3050		130 Watts
Radeon HD 6990		375 Watts
	Difference: 245 Watts (188%)

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the Radeon HD 6990 should theoretically be quite a bit better than the GeForce RTX 3050 overall. (explain)

Radeon HD 6990		320000 MB/sec
GeForce RTX 3050		229376 MB/sec
	Difference: 90624 (40%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon HD 6990 is much (about 28%) better at texture filtering than the GeForce RTX 3050. (explain)

Radeon HD 6990		159360 Mtexels/sec
GeForce RTX 3050		124160 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 35200 (28%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon HD 6990 will be just a bit (approximately 7%) more effective at FSAA than the GeForce RTX 3050, and will be capable of handling higher screen resolutions without losing too much performance. (explain)

Radeon HD 6990		53120 Mpixels/sec
GeForce RTX 3050		49664 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 3456 (7%)

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 max amount of information (counted in MB per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface within a second. It is worked out by multiplying the bus width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR type RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be applied per second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total texture units of the card 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 per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics card can possibly write to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the clock speed of the card. 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 quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.