GeForce RTX 3050 vs Radeon Vega Frontier Edition

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon Vega Frontier Edition, which features a clock frequency of 1382 MHz and a HBM2 memory frequency of 1890 MHz. It also uses a 2048-bit memory bus, and uses a 14 nm design. It is made up of 4096 SPUs, 256 TAUs, and 64 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce RTX 3050		130 Watts
Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		300 Watts
	Difference: 170 Watts (131%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon Vega Frontier Edition will be 116% faster than the GeForce RTX 3050 overall, because of its greater data rate. (explain)

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		495452 MB/sec
GeForce RTX 3050		229376 MB/sec
	Difference: 266076 (116%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon Vega Frontier Edition will be quite a bit (approximately 185%) better at AF than the GeForce RTX 3050. (explain)

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		353792 Mtexels/sec
GeForce RTX 3050		124160 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 229632 (185%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon Vega Frontier Edition should be much (more or less 78%) more effective at anti-aliasing than the GeForce RTX 3050, and will be capable of handling higher screen resolutions while still performing well. (explain)

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		88448 Mpixels/sec
GeForce RTX 3050		49664 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 38784 (78%)

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.

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Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the maximum amount of data (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface within a second. It's calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR 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 anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics chip could possibly write to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the clock 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 rate is also dependant on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.