GeForce RTX 3050 vs Radeon RX 470

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon RX 470, which has core clock speeds of 926 MHz on the GPU, and 1650 MHz on the 8192 MB of GDDR5 memory. It features 2048 SPUs as well as 128 Texture Address Units and 32 Rasterization Operator 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 small bit faster than the Radeon RX 470 overall. (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 bit (approximately 5%) more effective at 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

If running with high levels of AA is important to you, then the GeForce RTX 3050 is the winner, by far. (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 (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface within a second. It's worked out by multiplying the bus width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR type memory, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

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