GeForce RTX 3050 vs Radeon RX 6600

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon RX 6600, which features a clock frequency of 1626 MHz and a GDDR6 memory frequency of 1750 MHz. It also features a 128-bit bus, and uses a 7 nm design. It is made up of 1792 SPUs, 112 Texture Address Units, and 64 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce RTX 3050		130 Watts
Radeon RX 6600		132 Watts
	Difference: 2 Watts (2%)

Memory Bandwidth

Both cards have the exact same memory bandwidth, so theoretically they should perform the same. (explain)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 6600 will be a lot (approximately 47%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the GeForce RTX 3050. (explain)

Radeon RX 6600		182112 Mtexels/sec
GeForce RTX 3050		124160 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 57952 (47%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon RX 6600 is much (approximately 110%) better at AA than the GeForce RTX 3050, and should be able to handle higher resolutions better. (explain)

Radeon RX 6600		104064 Mpixels/sec
GeForce RTX 3050		49664 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 54400 (110%)

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 max amount of data (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface in one second. It's calculated by multiplying the interface width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the 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 number of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed per second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total amount of 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 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 card could possibly write to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel output rate also depends on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.