GeForce RTX 2060 vs GeForce RTX 3050

Intro

Compare all that to the GeForce RTX 3050, which features a GPU core clock speed of 1552 MHz, and 8192 MB of GDDR6 RAM set to run at 1750 MHz through a 128-bit bus. It also is made up of 2560 SPUs, 80 Texture Address Units, and 32 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce RTX 3050		130 Watts
GeForce RTX 2060		160 Watts
	Difference: 30 Watts (23%)

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce RTX 2060, in theory, should perform quite a bit faster than the GeForce RTX 3050 overall. (explain)

GeForce RTX 2060		344064 MB/sec
GeForce RTX 3050		229376 MB/sec
	Difference: 114688 (50%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce RTX 2060 will be a lot (about 32%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the GeForce RTX 3050. (explain)

GeForce RTX 2060		163800 Mtexels/sec
GeForce RTX 3050		124160 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 39640 (32%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce RTX 2060 is much (approximately 32%) 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 RTX 2060		65520 Mpixels/sec
GeForce RTX 3050		49664 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 15856 (32%)

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 maximum amount of information (measured in MB per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface in one second. It's calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher 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 texture map elements (texels) that are processed per second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics card can 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 colour ROPs by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel output rate also depends on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.