GeForce RTX 3050 vs GeForce RTX 4070 Ti

Intro

Compare those specs to the GeForce RTX 4070 Ti, which features core speeds of 2310 MHz on the GPU, and 1313 MHz on the 12288 MB of GDDR6X RAM. It features 7680 SPUs as well as 240 TAUs and 80 ROPs.

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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

The GeForce RTX 4070 Ti should in theory be much faster than the GeForce RTX 3050 in general. (explain)

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

Texel Rate

The GeForce RTX 4070 Ti should be quite a bit (about 347%) faster with regards to texture 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 using lots of anti-aliasing 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: Bandwidth is the maximum amount of information (in units of MB per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface within a second. It's worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR type memory, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, 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 calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the graphics card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics card could possibly write to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.