GeForce RTX 2070 vs GeForce RTX 3050

Intro

Compare all that to the GeForce RTX 3050, which uses a 8 nm design. nVidia has clocked the core frequency at 1552 MHz. The GDDR6 memory is set to run at a speed of 1750 MHz on this specific card. It features 2560 SPUs as well as 80 Texture Address Units and 32 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce RTX 3050		130 Watts
GeForce RTX 2070		175 Watts
	Difference: 45 Watts (35%)

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the GeForce RTX 2070 should in theory be a lot superior to the GeForce RTX 3050 in general. (explain)

GeForce RTX 2070		458752 MB/sec
GeForce RTX 3050		229376 MB/sec
	Difference: 229376 (100%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce RTX 2070 will be much (about 64%) better at AF than the GeForce RTX 3050. (explain)

GeForce RTX 2070		203040 Mtexels/sec
GeForce RTX 3050		124160 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 78880 (64%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high resolution is important to you, then the GeForce RTX 2070 is a better choice, and very much so. (explain)

GeForce RTX 2070		90240 Mpixels/sec
GeForce RTX 3050		49664 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 40576 (82%)

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 data (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface in one second. It's calculated by multiplying the interface width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher 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 number of texture map elements (texels) that are processed in one second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units 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 processed in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics chip can possibly record to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel output rate also depends on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.