GeForce RTX 3050 vs Radeon RX 6900 XT

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon RX 6900 XT, which comes with GPU core speed of 1825 MHz, and 16384 MB of GDDR6 memory set to run at 2000 MHz through a 256-bit bus. It also features 5120 SPUs, 320 Texture Address Units, and 128 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce RTX 3050		130 Watts
Radeon RX 6900 XT		300 Watts
	Difference: 170 Watts (131%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon RX 6900 XT, in theory, should perform much faster than the GeForce RTX 3050 in general. (explain)

Radeon RX 6900 XT		524288 MB/sec
GeForce RTX 3050		229376 MB/sec
	Difference: 294912 (129%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 6900 XT should be a lot (about 370%) better at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce RTX 3050. (explain)

Radeon RX 6900 XT		584000 Mtexels/sec
GeForce RTX 3050		124160 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 459840 (370%)

Pixel Rate

If using high levels of AA is important to you, then the Radeon RX 6900 XT is a better choice, by a large margin. (explain)

Radeon RX 6900 XT		233600 Mpixels/sec
GeForce RTX 3050		49664 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 183936 (370%)

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 largest amount of data (counted in megabytes per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface in a second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR type memory, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the 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 per second. This is calculated by multiplying the total texture units of the card 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 applied in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics chip could possibly record to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the number of ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel rate also depends on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.