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GeForce RTX 3050 vs Radeon HD 7950

Intro

The GeForce RTX 3050 comes with a GPU core speed of 1552 MHz, and the 8192 MB of GDDR6 memory is set to run at 1750 MHz through a 128-bit bus. It also is comprised of 2560 Stream Processors, 80 TAUs, and 32 ROPs.

Compare those specs to the Radeon HD 7950, which features a GPU core clock speed of 800 MHz, and 1536 MB of GDDR5 memory running at 1250 MHz through a 384-bit bus. It also features 1792 Stream Processors, 112 Texture Address Units, and 32 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

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

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon HD 7950 should theoretically be a small bit faster than the GeForce RTX 3050 overall. (explain)

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

Texel Rate

The GeForce RTX 3050 will be quite a bit (about 39%) better at texture filtering than the Radeon HD 7950. (explain)

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

Pixel Rate

The GeForce RTX 3050 should be much (about 94%) better at full screen anti-aliasing than the Radeon HD 7950, and also should be able to handle higher screen resolutions without losing too much performance. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3050 49664 Mpixels/sec
Radeon HD 7950 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

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Specifications

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Model GeForce RTX 3050 Radeon HD 7950
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year January 2022 January 2012
Code Name Ampere GA106-150-KA-A1 Tahiti Pro
Memory 8192 MB 1536 MB
Core Speed 1552 MHz 800 MHz
Memory Speed 1750 GB/s 5000 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 130 watts 200 watts
Bandwidth 229376 MB/sec 240000 MB/sec
Texel Rate 124160 Mtexels/sec 89600 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 49664 Mpixels/sec 25600 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 2560 1792
Texture Mapping Units 80 112
Render Output Units 32 32
Bus Type GDDR6 GDDR5
Bus Width 128-bit 384-bit
Fab Process 8 nm 28 nm
Transistors 12000 million 4313 million
Bus PCIe 4.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 12 DirectX 11.1
OpenGL Version OpenGL 4.6 OpenGL 4.2

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the maximum amount of information (counted in megabytes per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface within a second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR type memory, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the memory bandwidth, the better 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 are processed in one second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the video 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 that the graphics chip could possibly record to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel output rate also depends on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.

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GeForce RTX 3050

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