GeForce RTX 3050 vs Radeon RX 470 4GB

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon RX 470 4GB, which features core clock speeds of 926 MHz on the GPU, and 1650 MHz on the 4096 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 2048 SPUs as well as 128 TAUs and 32 Rasterization Operator Units.

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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

Performance-wise, the GeForce RTX 3050 should in theory be just a bit superior to the Radeon RX 470 4GB in general. (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%) more effective at AF 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 a better choice, and very much so. (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 largest amount of information (counted in MB per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface within a second. It's calculated by multiplying the bus width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the bandwidth is, 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 number of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed 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 the texel rate, 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 in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel rate also depends on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.