GeForce GTX 1660 Ti vs GeForce RTX 3050

Intro

Compare all of that to the GeForce RTX 3050, which comes with a clock frequency of 1552 MHz and a GDDR6 memory speed of 1750 MHz. It also features a 128-bit memory bus, and makes use of a 8 nm design. It is made up of 2560 SPUs, 80 TAUs, and 32 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 1660 Ti		120 Watts
GeForce RTX 3050		130 Watts
	Difference: 10 Watts (8%)

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the GeForce GTX 1660 Ti should theoretically be a lot better than the GeForce RTX 3050 overall. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1660 Ti		294912 MB/sec
GeForce RTX 3050		229376 MB/sec
	Difference: 65536 (29%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1660 Ti is a small bit (approximately 16%) more effective at texture filtering than the GeForce RTX 3050. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1660 Ti		144000 Mtexels/sec
GeForce RTX 3050		124160 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 19840 (16%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1660 Ti should be much (approximately 45%) faster with regards to full screen anti-aliasing than the GeForce RTX 3050, and also able to handle higher screen resolutions without losing too much performance. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1660 Ti		72000 Mpixels/sec
GeForce RTX 3050		49664 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 22336 (45%)

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: Memory bandwidth is the largest amount of data (counted in megabytes per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface in one second. The number is calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed per second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the card will be at handling 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 the graphics card can possibly write to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs 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, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.