GeForce RTX 3050 vs Geforce GTX 770

Intro

Compare that to the Geforce GTX 770, which makes use of a 28 nm design. nVidia has clocked the core frequency at 1046 MHz. The GDDR5 memory works at a frequency of 1753 MHz on this model. It features 1536 SPUs as well as 128 Texture Address Units and 32 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce RTX 3050		130 Watts
Geforce GTX 770		230 Watts
	Difference: 100 Watts (77%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the GeForce RTX 3050 should perform a little bit faster than the Geforce GTX 770 overall. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3050		229376 MB/sec
Geforce GTX 770		224384 MB/sec
	Difference: 4992 (2%)

Texel Rate

The Geforce GTX 770 should be a bit (approximately 8%) more effective at AF than the GeForce RTX 3050. (explain)

Geforce GTX 770		133888 Mtexels/sec
GeForce RTX 3050		124160 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 9728 (8%)

Pixel Rate

If running with lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the GeForce RTX 3050 is the winner, by far. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3050		49664 Mpixels/sec
Geforce GTX 770		33472 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 16192 (48%)

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 information (measured in MB per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface in a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR type memory, it must be multiplied by 2 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 are processed in one second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The higher 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 most pixels the video card can possibly write to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel fill rate also depends on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.