GeForce GTX 1080 vs GeForce RTX 3050

Intro

Compare all of that to the GeForce RTX 3050, which comes with clock speeds of 1552 MHz on the GPU, and 1750 MHz on the 8192 MB of GDDR6 memory. It features 2560 SPUs as well as 80 TAUs and 32 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce RTX 3050		130 Watts
GeForce GTX 1080		180 Watts
	Difference: 50 Watts (38%)

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce GTX 1080 should in theory be much faster than the GeForce RTX 3050 overall. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1080		327680 MB/sec
GeForce RTX 3050		229376 MB/sec
	Difference: 98304 (43%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1080 is much (about 107%) more effective at texture filtering than the GeForce RTX 3050. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1080		257120 Mtexels/sec
GeForce RTX 3050		124160 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 132960 (107%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1080 will be quite a bit (about 107%) more effective at FSAA than the GeForce RTX 3050, and able to handle higher resolutions more effectively. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1080		102848 Mpixels/sec
GeForce RTX 3050		49664 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 53184 (107%)

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 (measured in megabytes per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface in a second. It's worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR type RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the bandwidth is, the faster 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 can be processed in one second. This is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units 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 processed per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the graphics card could possibly record to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the the core 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 rate is also dependant on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.