GeForce RTX 3050 vs Radeon RX 6950 XT

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon RX 6950 XT, which uses a 7 nm design. AMD has clocked the core frequency at 1925 MHz. The GDDR6 RAM works at a speed of 2250 MHz on this particular card. It features 5120 SPUs along with 320 Texture Address Units and 128 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce RTX 3050		130 Watts
Radeon RX 6950 XT		335 Watts
	Difference: 205 Watts (158%)

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the Radeon RX 6950 XT should in theory be a lot superior to the GeForce RTX 3050 in general. (explain)

Radeon RX 6950 XT		589824 MB/sec
GeForce RTX 3050		229376 MB/sec
	Difference: 360448 (157%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 6950 XT is a lot (more or less 396%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the GeForce RTX 3050. (explain)

Radeon RX 6950 XT		616000 Mtexels/sec
GeForce RTX 3050		124160 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 491840 (396%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high screen resolution is important to you, then the Radeon RX 6950 XT is a better choice, by far. (explain)

Radeon RX 6950 XT		246400 Mpixels/sec
GeForce RTX 3050		49664 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 196736 (396%)

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 maximum amount of data (in units of MB per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface in a second. It's calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the video card could possibly write to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the the card's clock speed. 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 is also dependant on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.