GeForce GT 1030 vs Radeon R7 260X

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon R7 260X, which has core clock speeds of 1100 MHz on the GPU, and 1625 MHz on the 2048 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 896 SPUs along with 56 TAUs and 16 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GT 1030		30 Watts
Radeon R7 260X		115 Watts
	Difference: 85 Watts (283%)

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the Radeon R7 260X should theoretically be a lot superior to the GeForce GT 1030 in general. (explain)

Radeon R7 260X		104000 MB/sec
GeForce GT 1030		49152 MB/sec
	Difference: 54848 (112%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R7 260X will be a lot (about 52%) faster with regards to AF than the GeForce GT 1030. (explain)

Radeon R7 260X		61600 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GT 1030		40480 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 21120 (52%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GT 1030 is a little bit (more or less 15%) better at FSAA than the Radeon R7 260X, and also should be able to handle higher screen resolutions without slowing down too much. (explain)

GeForce GT 1030		20240 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R7 260X		17600 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 2640 (15%)

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 maximum amount of data (counted in megabytes per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface in one second. The number is worked out by multiplying the interface width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR type memory, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that are processed in one second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total texture units of the card 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 could possibly write to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called 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 of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.