GeForce RTX 3050 vs Geforce GTX 770

Intro

Compare all of that to the Geforce GTX 770, which comes with clock speeds of 1046 MHz on the GPU, and 1753 MHz on the 2048 MB of GDDR5 memory. It features 1536 SPUs as well as 128 Texture Address Units 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 770		230 Watts
	Difference: 100 Watts (77%)

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the GeForce RTX 3050 should theoretically be a little bit superior to the Geforce GTX 770 in general. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3050		229376 MB/sec
Geforce GTX 770		224384 MB/sec
	Difference: 4992 (2%)

Texel Rate

The Geforce GTX 770 will be a bit (approximately 8%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the GeForce RTX 3050. (explain)

Geforce GTX 770		133888 Mtexels/sec
GeForce RTX 3050		124160 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 9728 (8%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce RTX 3050 is quite a bit (more or less 48%) faster with regards to AA than the Geforce GTX 770, and will be able to handle higher resolutions more effectively. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3050		49664 Mpixels/sec
Geforce GTX 770		33472 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 16192 (48%)

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 maximum amount of information (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface in one second. The number is worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR type memory, 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 AA, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be applied in one second. This is calculated by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core clock 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 video 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 number of colour ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel output rate also depends on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.