GeForce RTX 3050 vs Radeon HD 7950

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon HD 7950, which has clock speeds of 800 MHz on the GPU, and 1250 MHz on the 1536 MB of GDDR5 memory. It features 1792 SPUs along with 112 Texture Address Units and 32 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce RTX 3050		130 Watts
Radeon HD 7950		200 Watts
	Difference: 70 Watts (54%)

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the Radeon HD 7950 should theoretically be a bit better than the GeForce RTX 3050 in general. (explain)

Radeon HD 7950		240000 MB/sec
GeForce RTX 3050		229376 MB/sec
	Difference: 10624 (5%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce RTX 3050 should be a lot (about 39%) more effective at texture filtering than the Radeon HD 7950. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3050		124160 Mtexels/sec
Radeon HD 7950		89600 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 34560 (39%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce RTX 3050 will be much (about 94%) better at anti-aliasing than the Radeon HD 7950, and also should be able to handle higher screen resolutions without slowing down too much. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3050		49664 Mpixels/sec
Radeon HD 7950		25600 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 24064 (94%)

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 (counted in MB per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface in a second. It's calculated by multiplying the bus width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR type memory, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher 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 number of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed per second. This is calculated by multiplying the total texture units by the core speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the video 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 number of pixels that the graphics chip can possibly record to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core 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 also depends on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.