GeForce RTX 3050 vs GeForce RTX 3080

Intro

Compare all of that to the GeForce RTX 3080, which comes with core speeds of 1440 MHz on the GPU, and 1188 MHz on the 10240 MB of GDDR6X RAM. It features 8704 SPUs as well as 272 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 3080		320 Watts
	Difference: 190 Watts (146%)

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce RTX 3080 should theoretically perform much faster than the GeForce RTX 3050 overall. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3080		778547 MB/sec
GeForce RTX 3050		229376 MB/sec
	Difference: 549171 (239%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce RTX 3080 is a lot (approximately 215%) better at texture filtering than the GeForce RTX 3050. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3080		391680 Mtexels/sec
GeForce RTX 3050		124160 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 267520 (215%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce RTX 3080 will be quite a bit (more or less 178%) better at full screen anti-aliasing than the GeForce RTX 3050, and also able to handle higher resolutions more effectively. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3080		138240 Mpixels/sec
GeForce RTX 3050		49664 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 88576 (178%)

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 max amount of information (counted in megabytes per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface within a second. It's worked out by multiplying the interface width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR type RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that can be applied in one second. This is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the graphics card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics chip could possibly record to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the card's clock speed. 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 output rate also depends 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.