GeForce RTX 3050 vs Radeon RX 6600 XT

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon RX 6600 XT, which has core clock speeds of 1968 MHz on the GPU, and 2000 MHz on the 8192 MB of GDDR6 RAM. It features 2048 SPUs as well as 128 Texture Address Units and 64 Rasterization Operator Units.

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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 in theory be a small bit faster than the GeForce RTX 3050 in general. (explain)

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

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 6600 XT should be a lot (approximately 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 will be quite a bit (approximately 154%) better at AA than the GeForce RTX 3050, and should be capable of handling higher 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 maximum amount of data (counted in megabytes per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface within a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the bus width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR type memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics card can possibly record to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel rate also depends on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.