GeForce RTX 3050 vs Radeon RX 5600

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon RX 5600, which has a GPU core clock speed of 1375 MHz, and 6144 MB of GDDR6 RAM set to run at 1500 MHz through a 192-bit bus. It also features 2048 Stream Processors, 128 TAUs, 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 theoretically perform much faster than the GeForce RTX 3050 overall. (explain)

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

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 5600 is quite a bit (about 42%) faster with regards to AF than the GeForce RTX 3050. (explain)

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

Pixel Rate

The Radeon RX 5600 is a lot (more or less 77%) more effective at FSAA than the GeForce RTX 3050, and should be capable of handling higher screen resolutions while still performing well. (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 largest amount of information (counted in MB per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface within a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR type memory, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the graphics card could possibly write to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the the core 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 is also dependant on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.