GeForce RTX 3050 vs Radeon RX 470

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon RX 470, which comes with a clock speed of 926 MHz and a GDDR5 memory frequency of 1650 MHz. It also uses a 256-bit bus, and makes use of a 14 nm design. It is made up of 2048 SPUs, 128 Texture Address Units, and 32 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 470		120 Watts
GeForce RTX 3050		130 Watts
	Difference: 10 Watts (8%)

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce RTX 3050 should theoretically perform a little bit faster than the Radeon RX 470 in general. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3050		229376 MB/sec
Radeon RX 470		211200 MB/sec
	Difference: 18176 (9%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce RTX 3050 will be a small bit (about 5%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the Radeon RX 470. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3050		124160 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 470		118528 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 5632 (5%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce RTX 3050 will be quite a bit (approximately 68%) better at AA than the Radeon RX 470, and will be capable of handling higher screen resolutions better. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3050		49664 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 470		29632 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 20032 (68%)

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 max amount of data (counted in MB per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface in one second. It is calculated by multiplying the interface width by the speed of its memory. In the case of 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 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 applied in one second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics chip could possibly record to its local memory per 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 outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.