GeForce RTX 3050 vs GeForce RTX 3070

Intro

Compare all that to the GeForce RTX 3070, which has a GPU core clock speed of 1500 MHz, and 8192 MB of GDDR6 memory running at 1750 MHz through a 256-bit bus. It also features 5888 SPUs, 184 Texture Address Units, and 96 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce RTX 3050		130 Watts
GeForce RTX 3070		220 Watts
	Difference: 90 Watts (69%)

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce RTX 3050 should theoretically perform a bit faster than the GeForce RTX 3070 overall. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3050		229376 MB/sec
GeForce RTX 3070		(Unknown) MB/sec
	Difference: 229376 (-100%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce RTX 3070 should be quite a bit (more or less 122%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce RTX 3050. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3070		276000 Mtexels/sec
GeForce RTX 3050		124160 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 151840 (122%)

Pixel Rate

If using high levels of AA is important to you, then the GeForce RTX 3070 is a better choice, by far. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3070		144000 Mpixels/sec
GeForce RTX 3050		49664 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 94336 (190%)

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 maximum amount of data (measured in megabytes per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface in a second. It is calculated by multiplying the interface width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed in one second. This figure 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 applied in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the graphics card can possibly write to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the amount of Render Output Units by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel output rate also depends on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.