GeForce GT 1030 vs Radeon HD 3470 256MB

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon HD 3470 256MB, which features a clock frequency of 800 MHz and a DDR2 memory speed of 950 MHz. It also uses a 128-bit memory bus, and makes use of a 55 nm design. It is made up of 40(8x5) SPUs, 4 Texture Address Units, and 4 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the GeForce GT 1030 should perform a lot faster than the Radeon HD 3470 256MB in general. (explain)

GeForce GT 1030		49152 MB/sec
Radeon HD 3470 256MB		30400 MB/sec
	Difference: 18752 (62%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GT 1030 should be much (about 1165%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the Radeon HD 3470 256MB. (explain)

GeForce GT 1030		40480 Mtexels/sec
Radeon HD 3470 256MB		3200 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 37280 (1165%)

Pixel Rate

If using lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the GeForce GT 1030 is superior to the Radeon HD 3470 256MB, and very much so. (explain)

GeForce GT 1030		20240 Mpixels/sec
Radeon HD 3470 256MB		3200 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 17040 (533%)

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 largest amount of information (in units of MB per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface within a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the interface width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the video card can possibly write to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the amount of Render Output Units by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.