GeForce RTX 3050 vs GeForce RTX 4090

Intro

Compare all of that to the GeForce RTX 4090, which comes with clock speeds of 2235 MHz on the GPU, and 1325 MHz on the 24576 MB of GDDR6X RAM. It features 16384 SPUs as well as 512 Texture Address Units and 176 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce RTX 3050		130 Watts
GeForce RTX 4090		450 Watts
	Difference: 320 Watts (246%)

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce RTX 4090, in theory, should perform quite a bit faster than the GeForce RTX 3050 overall. (explain)

GeForce RTX 4090		1042432 MB/sec
GeForce RTX 3050		229376 MB/sec
	Difference: 813056 (354%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce RTX 4090 is a lot (approximately 822%) better at texture filtering than the GeForce RTX 3050. (explain)

GeForce RTX 4090		1144320 Mtexels/sec
GeForce RTX 3050		124160 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 1020160 (822%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce RTX 4090 will be much (approximately 692%) more effective at full screen anti-aliasing than the GeForce RTX 3050, and also capable of handling higher resolutions more effectively. (explain)

GeForce RTX 4090		393360 Mpixels/sec
GeForce RTX 3050		49664 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 343696 (692%)

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: Bandwidth is the largest amount of data (counted in megabytes per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface in a second. It's worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better 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 applied in one second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the video card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the graphics card could possibly record to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the number of colour ROPs 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, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.