GeForce RTX 3050 vs Radeon RX 590

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon RX 590, which makes use of a 12 nm design. AMD has clocked the core speed at 1469 MHz. The GDDR5 memory is set to run at a frequency of 2000 MHz on this model. It features 2304 SPUs along with 144 Texture Address Units and 32 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce RTX 3050		130 Watts
Radeon RX 590		175 Watts
	Difference: 45 Watts (35%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon RX 590 will be 14% quicker than the GeForce RTX 3050 in general, due to its higher data rate. (explain)

Radeon RX 590		262144 MB/sec
GeForce RTX 3050		229376 MB/sec
	Difference: 32768 (14%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 590 is much (about 70%) more effective at AF than the GeForce RTX 3050. (explain)

Radeon RX 590		211536 Mtexels/sec
GeForce RTX 3050		124160 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 87376 (70%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high resolution is important to you, then the GeForce RTX 3050 is a better choice, not by a very large margin though. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3050		49664 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 590		47008 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 2656 (6%)

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 max amount of information (counted in megabytes per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface within a second. It's calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR type RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If 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 high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be applied per second. This 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 graphics card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the video card could possibly write to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core 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 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 ability to reach the max fill rate.