GeForce RTX 3050 vs GeForce RTX 4090

Intro

Compare those specs to the GeForce RTX 4090, which comes with a GPU core clock speed of 2235 MHz, and 24576 MB of GDDR6X memory running at 1325 MHz through a 384-bit bus. It also is made up of 16384 SPUs, 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

As far as performance goes, the GeForce RTX 4090 should theoretically be a lot superior to 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 will be a lot (more or less 822%) faster with regards to 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

If using high levels of AA is important to you, then the GeForce RTX 4090 is the winner, by a large margin. (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: Memory bandwidth is the largest amount of information (counted in megabytes per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface in one second. It's worked out by multiplying the interface width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR memory, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that are processed in one second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core 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 in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics chip can possibly write to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines 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 rate also depends on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.