GeForce RTX 3050 vs Radeon RX 6500 XT

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon RX 6500 XT, which comes with a core clock speed of 2200 MHz and a GDDR6 memory speed of 2250 MHz. It also makes use of a 64-bit bus, and uses a 6 nm design. It features 1024 SPUs, 64 Texture Address Units, and 32 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 6500 XT		107 Watts
GeForce RTX 3050		130 Watts
	Difference: 23 Watts (21%)

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the GeForce RTX 3050 should theoretically be much superior to the Radeon RX 6500 XT in general. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3050		229376 MB/sec
Radeon RX 6500 XT		147456 MB/sec
	Difference: 81920 (56%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 6500 XT will be a small bit (about 13%) faster with regards to AF than the GeForce RTX 3050. (explain)

Radeon RX 6500 XT		140800 Mtexels/sec
GeForce RTX 3050		124160 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 16640 (13%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high resolution is important to you, then the Radeon RX 6500 XT is the winner, and very much so. (explain)

Radeon RX 6500 XT		70400 Mpixels/sec
GeForce RTX 3050		49664 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 20736 (42%)

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: Memory bandwidth is the maximum amount of data (measured in megabytes per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface in one second. It is worked out by multiplying the bus width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR type memory, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the bandwidth is, the better 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 processed in one 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 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 chip can possibly write to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called 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, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.