GeForce RTX 3050 vs Radeon RX 5600 XT

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon RX 5600 XT, which comes with a GPU core clock speed of 1375 MHz, and 6144 MB of GDDR6 memory set to run at 1500 MHz through a 192-bit bus. It also is made up of 2304 Stream Processors, 144 Texture Address Units, and 64 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce RTX 3050		130 Watts
Radeon RX 5600 XT		160 Watts
	Difference: 30 Watts (23%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon RX 5600 XT should be a lot faster than the GeForce RTX 3050 overall. (explain)

Radeon RX 5600 XT		344064 MB/sec
GeForce RTX 3050		229376 MB/sec
	Difference: 114688 (50%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 5600 XT should be much (more or less 59%) more effective at texture filtering than the GeForce RTX 3050. (explain)

Radeon RX 5600 XT		198000 Mtexels/sec
GeForce RTX 3050		124160 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 73840 (59%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon RX 5600 XT should be quite a bit (about 77%) better at full screen anti-aliasing than the GeForce RTX 3050, and should be able to handle higher resolutions while still performing well. (explain)

Radeon RX 5600 XT		88000 Mpixels/sec
GeForce RTX 3050		49664 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 38336 (77%)

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 maximum amount of information (counted in megabytes per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface within a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR type memory, it should 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, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that are processed in one second. This number 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 handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of 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 amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.