GeForce GT 1030 vs GeForce GTX 460 SE

Intro

Compare that to the GeForce GTX 460 SE, which makes use of a 40 nm design. nVidia has clocked the core frequency at 650 MHz. The GDDR5 memory runs at a frequency of 850 MHz on this card. It features 288 SPUs along with 48 Texture Address Units and 32 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GT 1030		30 Watts
GeForce GTX 460 SE		150 Watts
	Difference: 120 Watts (400%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the GeForce GTX 460 SE should be a lot faster than the GeForce GT 1030 in general. (explain)

GeForce GTX 460 SE		108800 MB/sec
GeForce GT 1030		49152 MB/sec
	Difference: 59648 (121%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GT 1030 is quite a bit (about 30%) better at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 460 SE. (explain)

GeForce GT 1030		40480 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 460 SE		31200 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 9280 (30%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 460 SE should be a bit (approximately 3%) more effective at full screen anti-aliasing than the GeForce GT 1030, and should be capable of handling higher resolutions without slowing down too much. (explain)

GeForce GTX 460 SE		20800 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GT 1030		20240 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 560 (3%)

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 max amount of data (counted in MB per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface in a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the bandwidth is, the faster 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 in one second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total texture units by the core speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the graphics 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 most pixels the video card can possibly write to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines 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 lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.