GeForce RTX 3050 vs GeForce RTX 3060 Ti

Intro

Compare those specifications to the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti, which features a core clock frequency of 1410 MHz and a GDDR6 memory frequency of 1750 MHz. It also uses a 256-bit memory bus, and uses a 8 nm design. It is made up of 4864 SPUs, 152 TAUs, and 80 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce RTX 3050		130 Watts
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti		200 Watts
	Difference: 70 Watts (54%)

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce RTX 3050 should theoretically be a little bit faster than the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti overall. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3050		229376 MB/sec
GeForce RTX 3060 Ti		(Unknown) MB/sec
	Difference: 229376 (-100%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce RTX 3060 Ti should be quite a bit (approximately 73%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce RTX 3050. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti		214320 Mtexels/sec
GeForce RTX 3050		124160 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 90160 (73%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high screen resolution is important to you, then the GeForce RTX 3060 Ti is superior to the GeForce RTX 3050, by far. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3060 Ti		112800 Mpixels/sec
GeForce RTX 3050		49664 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 63136 (127%)

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 (in units of MB per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface in a second. It's calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR type RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that are processed per 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 processed in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the graphics card could 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 Render Output Units by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.