GeForce 9800 GT 512MB vs GeForce GT 1030

Intro

Compare those specs to the GeForce GT 1030, which comes with core speeds of 1265 MHz on the GPU, and 1502 MHz on the 2048 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 384 SPUs as well as 32 Texture Address Units and 16 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GT 1030		30 Watts
GeForce 9800 GT 512MB		105 Watts
	Difference: 75 Watts (250%)

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce 9800 GT 512MB should in theory perform a bit faster than the GeForce GT 1030 overall. (explain)

GeForce 9800 GT 512MB		57600 MB/sec
GeForce GT 1030		49152 MB/sec
	Difference: 8448 (17%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GT 1030 will be just a bit (about 20%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the GeForce 9800 GT 512MB. (explain)

GeForce GT 1030		40480 Mtexels/sec
GeForce 9800 GT 512MB		33600 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 6880 (20%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high resolution is important to you, then the GeForce GT 1030 is superior to the GeForce 9800 GT 512MB, and very much so. (explain)

GeForce GT 1030		20240 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 9800 GT 512MB		9600 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 10640 (111%)

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 information (measured in megabytes per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface within a second. It's calculated by multiplying the bus width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses 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, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that are processed 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 graphics card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the video card could possibly record to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.