GeForce GTX 1060 vs GeForce RTX 3050

Intro

Compare all of that to the GeForce RTX 3050, which comes with a clock speed of 1552 MHz and a GDDR6 memory frequency of 1750 MHz. It also features a 128-bit bus, and makes use of a 8 nm design. It features 2560 SPUs, 80 Texture Address Units, and 32 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 1060		120 Watts
GeForce RTX 3050		130 Watts
	Difference: 10 Watts (8%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the GeForce RTX 3050 will be 17% quicker than the GeForce GTX 1060 in general, due to its higher data rate. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3050		229376 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 1060		196608 MB/sec
	Difference: 32768 (17%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce RTX 3050 will be a bit (more or less 3%) better at texture filtering than the GeForce GTX 1060. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3050		124160 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 1060		120480 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 3680 (3%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1060 will be a lot (about 46%) faster with regards to anti-aliasing than the GeForce RTX 3050, and able to handle higher resolutions more effectively. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1060		72288 Mpixels/sec
GeForce RTX 3050		49664 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 22624 (46%)

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 (in units of megabytes per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface in a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR type RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 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, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that are applied per second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the video card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics card can possibly write to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the clock 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 fill rate also depends on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.