GeForce RTX 3050 vs Radeon VII

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon VII, which has GPU clock speed of 1400 MHz, and 16384 MB of HBM2 memory set to run at 1000 MHz through a 4096-bit bus. It also is made up of 3840 SPUs, 240 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 VII		295 Watts
	Difference: 165 Watts (127%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon VII should be 357% quicker than the GeForce RTX 3050 overall, because of its greater data rate. (explain)

Radeon VII		1048576 MB/sec
GeForce RTX 3050		229376 MB/sec
	Difference: 819200 (357%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon VII is a lot (about 171%) more effective at AF than the GeForce RTX 3050. (explain)

Radeon VII		336000 Mtexels/sec
GeForce RTX 3050		124160 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 211840 (171%)

Pixel Rate

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

Radeon VII		89600 Mpixels/sec
GeForce RTX 3050		49664 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 39936 (80%)

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 transferred past the external memory interface in one second. It's worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR RAM, it must 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 higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics chip can possibly record to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called 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, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.