GeForce RTX 3050 vs GeForce RTX 3070 Ti

Intro

Compare those specs to the GeForce RTX 3070 Ti, which features core speeds of 1575 MHz on the GPU, and 1188 MHz on the 8192 MB of GDDR6X RAM. It features 6144 SPUs as well as 192 TAUs and 96 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce RTX 3050		130 Watts
GeForce RTX 3070 Ti		290 Watts
	Difference: 160 Watts (123%)

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the GeForce RTX 3070 Ti should theoretically be much superior to the GeForce RTX 3050 in general. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3070 Ti		622899 MB/sec
GeForce RTX 3050		229376 MB/sec
	Difference: 393523 (172%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce RTX 3070 Ti should be a lot (about 144%) more effective at AF than the GeForce RTX 3050. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3070 Ti		302400 Mtexels/sec
GeForce RTX 3050		124160 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 178240 (144%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce RTX 3070 Ti should be a lot (about 204%) better at anti-aliasing than the GeForce RTX 3050, and also should be able to handle higher screen resolutions while still performing well. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3070 Ti		151200 Mpixels/sec
GeForce RTX 3050		49664 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 101536 (204%)

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 information (in units of MB per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface within a second. It is worked out by multiplying the bus width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR type memory, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the bandwidth is, 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 number is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core clock 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 a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics card could possibly write to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the the core 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 rate also depends on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.