GeForce RTX 3050 vs Radeon RX 550

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon RX 550, which features a GPU core clock speed of 1100 MHz, and 2048 MB of GDDR5 RAM set to run at 1750 MHz through a 128-bit bus. It also is made up of 512 SPUs, 32 TAUs, and 16 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 550		50 Watts
GeForce RTX 3050		130 Watts
	Difference: 80 Watts (160%)

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the GeForce RTX 3050 should in theory be much superior to the Radeon RX 550 overall. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3050		229376 MB/sec
Radeon RX 550		114688 MB/sec
	Difference: 114688 (100%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce RTX 3050 should be quite a bit (more or less 253%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the Radeon RX 550. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3050		124160 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 550		35200 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 88960 (253%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high screen resolution is important to you, then the GeForce RTX 3050 is the winner, by far. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3050		49664 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 550		17600 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 32064 (182%)

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 (measured in megabytes per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface within a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that can be applied per second. This is worked out by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core clock 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 per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel fill rate also depends on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.