GeForce GTX 480 vs GeForce RTX 3050

Intro

Compare those specs to the GeForce RTX 3050, which features core clock speeds of 1552 MHz on the GPU, and 1750 MHz on the 8192 MB of GDDR6 RAM. It features 2560 SPUs along with 80 TAUs and 32 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce RTX 3050		130 Watts
GeForce GTX 480		250 Watts
	Difference: 120 Watts (92%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the GeForce RTX 3050 will be 29% quicker than the GeForce GTX 480 overall, due to its greater bandwidth. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3050		229376 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 480		177408 MB/sec
	Difference: 51968 (29%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce RTX 3050 should be much (about 196%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 480. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3050		124160 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 480		42000 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 82160 (196%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce RTX 3050 will be much (about 48%) more effective at anti-aliasing than the GeForce GTX 480, and will be able to handle higher resolutions better. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3050		49664 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 480		33600 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 16064 (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 information (counted in megabytes per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface in one second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics card can possibly write to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel rate also depends on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.