GeForce RTX 3050 vs Radeon R7 260X

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon R7 260X, which comes with a core clock speed of 1100 MHz and a GDDR5 memory speed of 1625 MHz. It also makes use of a 128-bit memory bus, and makes use of a 28 nm design. It is comprised of 896 SPUs, 56 Texture Address Units, and 16 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon R7 260X		115 Watts
GeForce RTX 3050		130 Watts
	Difference: 15 Watts (13%)

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the GeForce RTX 3050 should theoretically be quite a bit superior to the Radeon R7 260X overall. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3050		229376 MB/sec
Radeon R7 260X		104000 MB/sec
	Difference: 125376 (121%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce RTX 3050 will be much (approximately 102%) better at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon R7 260X. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3050		124160 Mtexels/sec
Radeon R7 260X		61600 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 62560 (102%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high screen resolution is important to you, then the GeForce RTX 3050 is superior to the Radeon R7 260X, by a large margin. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3050		49664 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 260X		17600 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 32064 (182%)

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 data (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface in one second. It is calculated by multiplying the interface width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 once 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, HDR and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics card can possibly write to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel fill rate also depends on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.