GeForce RTX 3050 vs Radeon HD 7850

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon HD 7850, which comes with a core clock frequency of 860 MHz and a GDDR5 memory frequency of 1200 MHz. It also makes use of a 256-bit memory bus, and uses a 28 nm design. It is made up of 1024 SPUs, 64 Texture Address Units, and 32 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Both cards have the same power consumption.

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the GeForce RTX 3050 should perform a lot faster than the Radeon HD 7850 overall. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3050		229376 MB/sec
Radeon HD 7850		153600 MB/sec
	Difference: 75776 (49%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce RTX 3050 should be quite a bit (about 126%) better at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon HD 7850. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3050		124160 Mtexels/sec
Radeon HD 7850		55040 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 69120 (126%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce RTX 3050 should be a lot (more or less 80%) faster with regards to FSAA than the Radeon HD 7850, and able to handle higher screen resolutions without losing too much performance. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3050		49664 Mpixels/sec
Radeon HD 7850		27520 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 22144 (80%)

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 (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface within a second. It's calculated by multiplying the interface width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

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