GeForce GTX 1050 3GB vs Radeon RX 6800 XT

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon RX 6800 XT, which comes with clock speeds of 1825 MHz on the GPU, and 2000 MHz on the 16384 MB of GDDR6 memory. It features 4608 SPUs along with 288 TAUs and 128 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 1050 3GB		75 Watts
Radeon RX 6800 XT		300 Watts
	Difference: 225 Watts (300%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon RX 6800 XT should be quite a bit faster than the GeForce GTX 1050 3GB in general. (explain)

Radeon RX 6800 XT		524288 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 1050 3GB		86016 MB/sec
	Difference: 438272 (510%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 6800 XT is much (approximately 687%) better at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 1050 3GB. (explain)

Radeon RX 6800 XT		525600 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 1050 3GB		66816 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 458784 (687%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high screen resolution is important to you, then the Radeon RX 6800 XT is the winner, by far. (explain)

Radeon RX 6800 XT		233600 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 1050 3GB		33408 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 200192 (599%)

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 max amount of data (measured in MB per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface within a second. It is calculated by multiplying the interface width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR type memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the card's memory bandwidth, 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 amount of texture map elements (texels) that are applied in one second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the video card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied per second.

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