GeForce RTX 3050 vs Radeon RX 580

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon RX 580, which makes use of a 14 nm design. AMD has set the core speed at 1257 MHz. The GDDR5 memory is set to run at a frequency of 2000 MHz on this particular card. It features 2304 SPUs as well as 144 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
Radeon RX 580		185 Watts
	Difference: 55 Watts (42%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon RX 580 will be 14% faster than the GeForce RTX 3050 in general, due to its greater bandwidth. (explain)

Radeon RX 580		262144 MB/sec
GeForce RTX 3050		229376 MB/sec
	Difference: 32768 (14%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 580 will be much (more or less 46%) more effective at AF than the GeForce RTX 3050. (explain)

Radeon RX 580		181008 Mtexels/sec
GeForce RTX 3050		124160 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 56848 (46%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce RTX 3050 should be much (approximately 23%) better at AA than the Radeon RX 580, and should be able to handle higher resolutions better. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3050		49664 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 580		40224 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 9440 (23%)

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 (counted in megabytes per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface in one second. It's calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the graphics card could possibly write to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel fill rate also depends on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.