GeForce RTX 3050 vs Geforce GTX 680

Intro

Compare all that to the Geforce GTX 680, which features clock speeds of 1006 MHz on the GPU, and 1502 MHz on the 2048 MB of GDDR5 RAM. 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 680		195 Watts
	Difference: 65 Watts (50%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the GeForce RTX 3050 is 19% quicker than the Geforce GTX 680 in general, due to its higher data rate. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3050		229376 MB/sec
Geforce GTX 680		192256 MB/sec
	Difference: 37120 (19%)

Texel Rate

The Geforce GTX 680 will be a small bit (approximately 4%) more effective at AF than the GeForce RTX 3050. (explain)

Geforce GTX 680		128768 Mtexels/sec
GeForce RTX 3050		124160 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 4608 (4%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high resolution is important to you, then the GeForce RTX 3050 is superior to the Geforce GTX 680, and very much so. (explain)

GeForce RTX 3050		49664 Mpixels/sec
Geforce GTX 680		32192 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 17472 (54%)

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 information (measured in MB per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface in one second. It is worked out by multiplying the interface width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR type memory, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

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

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