GeForce RTX 3050 vs Radeon RX 470 4GB

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon RX 470 4GB, which has GPU core speed of 926 MHz, and 4096 MB of GDDR5 memory set to run at 1650 MHz through a 256-bit bus. It also is comprised of 2048 Stream Processors, 128 Texture Address Units, and 32 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon RX 470 4GB		120 Watts
GeForce RTX 3050		130 Watts
	Difference: 10 Watts (8%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the GeForce RTX 3050 should perform a bit faster than the Radeon RX 470 4GB overall. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3050		229376 MB/sec
Radeon RX 470 4GB		211200 MB/sec
	Difference: 18176 (9%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce RTX 3050 should be a little bit (more or less 5%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the Radeon RX 470 4GB. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3050		124160 Mtexels/sec
Radeon RX 470 4GB		118528 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 5632 (5%)

Pixel Rate

If using high levels of AA is important to you, then the GeForce RTX 3050 is the winner, by a large margin. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3050		49664 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 470 4GB		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: Memory bandwidth is the max amount of information (in units of megabytes per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface within a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the interface width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics card could possibly write to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.