GeForce RTX 3050 vs GeForce RTX 3090

Intro

Compare all of that to the GeForce RTX 3090, which has a core clock speed of 1395 MHz and a GDDR6X memory speed of 1219 MHz. It also makes use of a 384-bit memory bus, and makes use of a 8 nm design. It is comprised of 10496 SPUs, 328 Texture Address Units, and 112 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce RTX 3050		130 Watts
GeForce RTX 3090		350 Watts
	Difference: 220 Watts (169%)

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce RTX 3090, in theory, should perform much faster than the GeForce RTX 3050 overall. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3090		958668 MB/sec
GeForce RTX 3050		229376 MB/sec
	Difference: 729292 (318%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce RTX 3090 will be a lot (more or less 269%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce RTX 3050. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3090		457560 Mtexels/sec
GeForce RTX 3050		124160 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 333400 (269%)

Pixel Rate

If running with high levels of AA is important to you, then the GeForce RTX 3090 is the winner, and very much so. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3090		156240 Mpixels/sec
GeForce RTX 3050		49664 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 106576 (215%)

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 information (measured in megabytes per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface within a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the bus width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the bandwidth is, the better 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 are applied in one second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the video 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 most pixels that the graphics chip can possibly record to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel fill rate also depends on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.