GeForce RTX 3050 vs Radeon RX 6600 XT

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon RX 6600 XT, which comes with a GPU core clock speed of 1968 MHz, and 8192 MB of GDDR6 RAM running at 2000 MHz through a 128-bit bus. It also features 2048 Stream Processors, 128 Texture Address Units, and 64 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce RTX 3050		130 Watts
Radeon RX 6600 XT		160 Watts
	Difference: 30 Watts (23%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon RX 6600 XT will be 14% quicker than the GeForce RTX 3050 overall, due to its greater bandwidth. (explain)

Radeon RX 6600 XT		262144 MB/sec
GeForce RTX 3050		229376 MB/sec
	Difference: 32768 (14%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 6600 XT will be a lot (more or less 103%) faster with regards to AF than the GeForce RTX 3050. (explain)

Radeon RX 6600 XT		251904 Mtexels/sec
GeForce RTX 3050		124160 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 127744 (103%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon RX 6600 XT is a lot (approximately 154%) better at anti-aliasing than the GeForce RTX 3050, and also will be able to handle higher screen resolutions without losing too much performance. (explain)

Radeon RX 6600 XT		125952 Mpixels/sec
GeForce RTX 3050		49664 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 76288 (154%)

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 information (in units of MB per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface in a second. It's worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR type memory, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that are applied per second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics card could possibly record to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the the card's 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 output rate also depends on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.