GeForce RTX 3050 vs Geforce GTX 690

Intro

Compare those specs to the Geforce GTX 690, which features clock speeds of 915 MHz on the GPU, and 1502 MHz on the 2048 MB of GDDR5 memory. It features 1536 SPUs along with 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 690		300 Watts
	Difference: 170 Watts (131%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Geforce GTX 690, in theory, should perform much faster than the GeForce RTX 3050 overall. (explain)

Geforce GTX 690		384512 MB/sec
GeForce RTX 3050		229376 MB/sec
	Difference: 155136 (68%)

Texel Rate

The Geforce GTX 690 will be quite a bit (approximately 89%) more effective at AF than the GeForce RTX 3050. (explain)

Geforce GTX 690		234240 Mtexels/sec
GeForce RTX 3050		124160 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 110080 (89%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high screen resolution is important to you, then the Geforce GTX 690 is superior to the GeForce RTX 3050, but not by far. (explain)

Geforce GTX 690		58560 Mpixels/sec
GeForce RTX 3050		49664 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 8896 (18%)

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.

One or more cards in this comparison are multi-core. This means that their bandwidth, texel and pixel rates are theoretically doubled - this does not mean the card will actually perform twice as fast, but only that it should in theory be able to. Actual game benchmarks will give a more accurate idea of what it's capable of.

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Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the max amount of information (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface in a second. It is worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR type 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 anti-aliasing, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that are processed in one second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total texture units by the core speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the video 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 maximum amount of pixels the graphics card can possibly write to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the the core 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 fill rate also depends on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.