GeForce GT 1030 vs Radeon HD 5850

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon HD 5850, which has core speeds of 725 MHz on the GPU, and 1000 MHz on the 1024 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 1440(288x5) SPUs along with 72 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 HD 5850		151 Watts
	Difference: 121 Watts (403%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon HD 5850 should in theory perform a lot faster than the GeForce GT 1030 in general. (explain)

Radeon HD 5850		128000 MB/sec
GeForce GT 1030		49152 MB/sec
	Difference: 78848 (160%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon HD 5850 should be a lot (more or less 29%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the GeForce GT 1030. (explain)

Radeon HD 5850		52200 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GT 1030		40480 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 11720 (29%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon HD 5850 should be a little bit (more or less 15%) better at AA than the GeForce GT 1030, and should be capable of handling higher resolutions better. (explain)

Radeon HD 5850		23200 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GT 1030		20240 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 2960 (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: Memory bandwidth is the max amount of data (counted in megabytes per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface in one second. It's worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR memory, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the 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 are applied in one second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the graphics 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 maximum amount of pixels that the graphics chip can possibly record to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel output rate also depends on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.