GeForce RTX 3050 vs Radeon RX 6600 XT

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon RX 6600 XT, which makes use of a 7 nm design. AMD has set the core speed at 1968 MHz. The GDDR6 RAM runs at a frequency of 2000 MHz on this particular card. It features 2048 SPUs as well as 128 TAUs 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

The Radeon RX 6600 XT should theoretically be a little bit faster than the GeForce RTX 3050 overall. (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 much (about 103%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering 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 should be quite a bit (more or less 154%) more effective at AA than the GeForce RTX 3050, and also able to handle higher resolutions better. (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: Memory bandwidth is the max amount of information (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface in a second. It is worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory speed. If the card has 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, High Dynamic Range 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 texture units 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 in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the video card could possibly record to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the amount of Render Output Units by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel fill 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 ability to reach the maximum fill rate.