GeForce GT 1030 vs Radeon RX 570

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon RX 570, which makes use of a 14 nm design. AMD has set the core speed at 1168 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM runs at a frequency of 1750 MHz on this card. It features 2048 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 GT 1030		30 Watts
Radeon RX 570		150 Watts
	Difference: 120 Watts (400%)

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the Radeon RX 570 should theoretically be a lot better than the GeForce GT 1030 in general. (explain)

Radeon RX 570		229376 MB/sec
GeForce GT 1030		49152 MB/sec
	Difference: 180224 (367%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 570 is much (approximately 269%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the GeForce GT 1030. (explain)

Radeon RX 570		149504 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GT 1030		40480 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 109024 (269%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon RX 570 should be a lot (approximately 85%) better at FSAA than the GeForce GT 1030, and also will be able to handle higher resolutions better. (explain)

Radeon RX 570		37376 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GT 1030		20240 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 17136 (85%)

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 largest amount of data (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface within a second. It is calculated by multiplying the interface width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR type memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that can be applied in one second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total texture units by the core speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the 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 maximum amount of pixels that the graphics card could possibly record to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the number of ROPs by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.