GeForce RTX 3050 vs Geforce GTX 770

Intro

Compare all of that to the Geforce GTX 770, which has a clock frequency of 1046 MHz and a GDDR5 memory speed of 1753 MHz. It also features a 256-bit bus, and uses a 28 nm design. It is comprised of 1536 SPUs, 128 Texture Address Units, and 32 ROPs.

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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

As far as performance goes, the GeForce RTX 3050 should in theory be a bit better than 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 small bit (approximately 8%) more effective at texture 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 a lot (approximately 48%) faster with regards to AA than the Geforce GTX 770, and also should be capable of handling higher resolutions better. (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 max amount of data (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface in one second. It's calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics chip can possibly write to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel 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.