GeForce RTX 3050 vs Radeon RX 5600

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon RX 5600, 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 2048 Stream Processors, 128 Texture Address Units, and 64 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce RTX 3050		130 Watts
Radeon RX 5600		150 Watts
	Difference: 20 Watts (15%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon RX 5600 should in theory be much faster than the GeForce RTX 3050 in general. (explain)

Radeon RX 5600		294912 MB/sec
GeForce RTX 3050		229376 MB/sec
	Difference: 65536 (29%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 5600 is much (more or less 42%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce RTX 3050. (explain)

Radeon RX 5600		176000 Mtexels/sec
GeForce RTX 3050		124160 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 51840 (42%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high screen resolution is important to you, then the Radeon RX 5600 is the winner, by far. (explain)

Radeon RX 5600		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 max amount of information (measured in megabytes per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface in one second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by the speed of its memory. If it uses 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 high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be applied in one second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The better 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 one second.

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