GeForce RTX 3050 vs Radeon HD 7950 3GB

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon HD 7950 3GB, which features core speeds of 800 MHz on the GPU, and 1250 MHz on the 3072 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 1792 SPUs as well as 112 TAUs and 32 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce RTX 3050		130 Watts
Radeon HD 7950 3GB		200 Watts
	Difference: 70 Watts (54%)

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the Radeon HD 7950 3GB should in theory be just a bit superior to the GeForce RTX 3050 overall. (explain)

Radeon HD 7950 3GB		240000 MB/sec
GeForce RTX 3050		229376 MB/sec
	Difference: 10624 (5%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce RTX 3050 should be quite a bit (about 39%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the Radeon HD 7950 3GB. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3050		124160 Mtexels/sec
Radeon HD 7950 3GB		89600 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 34560 (39%)

Pixel Rate

If using high levels of AA is important to you, then the GeForce RTX 3050 is superior to the Radeon HD 7950 3GB, and very much so. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3050		49664 Mpixels/sec
Radeon HD 7950 3GB		25600 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 24064 (94%)

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 largest amount of information (counted in megabytes per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface in one second. The number is worked out by multiplying the interface width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR memory, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the graphics card can possibly record to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.