GeForce RTX 3050 vs GeForce RTX 4070 Ti

Intro

Compare those specs to the GeForce RTX 4070 Ti, which makes use of a 4 nm design. nVidia has clocked the core speed at 2310 MHz. The GDDR6X RAM runs at a speed of 1313 MHz on this specific model. It features 7680 SPUs along with 240 TAUs and 80 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce RTX 3050		130 Watts
GeForce RTX 4070 Ti		285 Watts
	Difference: 155 Watts (119%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the GeForce RTX 4070 Ti should be quite a bit faster than the GeForce RTX 3050 overall. (explain)

GeForce RTX 4070 Ti		516096 MB/sec
GeForce RTX 3050		229376 MB/sec
	Difference: 286720 (125%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce RTX 4070 Ti will be much (more or less 347%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the GeForce RTX 3050. (explain)

GeForce RTX 4070 Ti		554400 Mtexels/sec
GeForce RTX 3050		124160 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 430240 (347%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high resolution is important to you, then the GeForce RTX 4070 Ti is the winner, by a large margin. (explain)

GeForce RTX 4070 Ti		184800 Mpixels/sec
GeForce RTX 3050		49664 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 135136 (272%)

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 data (counted in megabytes per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface in a second. It's worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR type RAM, 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 can be processed in one second. This is worked out by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The better 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 most pixels that the graphics card could possibly write to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the number of ROPs by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel output rate also depends on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.