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GeForce RTX 3050 vs Radeon RX 470 4GB

Intro

The GeForce RTX 3050 uses a 8 nm design. nVidia has set the core frequency at 1552 MHz. The GDDR6 memory works at a speed of 1750 MHz on this particular model. It features 2560 SPUs along with 80 Texture Address Units and 32 ROPs.

Compare all of that to the Radeon RX 470 4GB, which makes use of a 14 nm design. AMD has clocked the core frequency at 926 MHz. The GDDR5 memory is set to run at a speed of 1650 MHz on this specific model. It features 2048 SPUs along with 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, the GeForce RTX 3050 should perform just 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 is just a bit (more or less 5%) better 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

The GeForce RTX 3050 will be a lot (more or less 68%) more effective at full screen anti-aliasing than the Radeon RX 470 4GB, and also able to handle higher screen resolutions without losing too much performance. (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

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Specifications

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Model GeForce RTX 3050 Radeon RX 470 4GB
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year January 2022 August 2016
Code Name Ampere GA106-150-KA-A1 Polaris 10
Memory 8192 MB 4096 MB
Core Speed 1552 MHz 926 MHz
Memory Speed 1750 GB/s 6600 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 130 watts 120 watts
Bandwidth 229376 MB/sec 211200 MB/sec
Texel Rate 124160 Mtexels/sec 118528 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 49664 Mpixels/sec 29632 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 2560 2048
Texture Mapping Units 80 128
Render Output Units 32 32
Bus Type GDDR6 GDDR5
Bus Width 128-bit 256-bit
Fab Process 8 nm 14 nm
Transistors 12000 million 5700 million
Bus PCIe 4.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 12 DirectX 12.0
OpenGL Version OpenGL 4.6 OpenGL 4.5

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the max amount of data (in units of MB per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface within a second. It's worked out by multiplying the interface width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR type memory, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics card can possibly write to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel output rate also depends on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.

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