GeForce RTX 3050 vs GeForce RTX 3070 Ti

Intro

Compare that to the GeForce RTX 3070 Ti, which comes with GPU core speed of 1575 MHz, and 8192 MB of GDDR6X RAM set to run at 1188 MHz through a 256-bit bus. It also features 6144 SPUs, 192 Texture Address Units, and 96 Raster Operation 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

Theoretically speaking, the GeForce RTX 3070 Ti is 172% faster than the GeForce RTX 3050 overall, because of its higher bandwidth. (explain)

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

Texel Rate

The GeForce RTX 3070 Ti is much (approximately 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

If using a high screen resolution is important to you, then the GeForce RTX 3070 Ti is the winner, by far. (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: Memory bandwidth is the max amount of information (counted in megabytes per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface in a second. It's calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR type RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that are applied in one second. This 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 texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics card can possibly record 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 the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.