GeForce RTX 3050 vs Radeon RX 470 4GB

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon RX 470 4GB, which uses a 14 nm design. AMD has clocked the core frequency at 926 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM is set to run at a frequency of 1650 MHz on this specific card. It features 2048 SPUs as well as 128 TAUs 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 will be 9% faster than the Radeon RX 470 4GB overall, because of its higher data rate. (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 small bit (about 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

The GeForce RTX 3050 is much (approximately 68%) faster with regards to AA than the Radeon RX 470 4GB, and capable of handling higher resolutions without slowing down too much. (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: Bandwidth is the largest amount of information (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface in a second. It is worked out by multiplying the bus width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR type memory, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the bandwidth is, 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 processed per second. This is calculated by multiplying the total texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the card will be at 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 chip can possibly record to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the number of ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.