GeForce GT 1030 vs Radeon Vega Frontier Edition

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon Vega Frontier Edition, which has clock speeds of 1382 MHz on the GPU, and 1890 MHz on the 16384 MB of HBM2 memory. It features 4096 SPUs as well as 256 Texture Address Units and 64 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GT 1030		30 Watts
Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		300 Watts
	Difference: 270 Watts (900%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon Vega Frontier Edition will be 908% quicker than the GeForce GT 1030 overall, because of its higher bandwidth. (explain)

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		495452 MB/sec
GeForce GT 1030		49152 MB/sec
	Difference: 446300 (908%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon Vega Frontier Edition will be a lot (more or less 774%) faster with regards to AF than the GeForce GT 1030. (explain)

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		353792 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GT 1030		40480 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 313312 (774%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high resolution is important to you, then the Radeon Vega Frontier Edition is superior to the GeForce GT 1030, by far. (explain)

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		88448 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GT 1030		20240 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 68208 (337%)

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 (counted in MB per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface in a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the bus width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR type RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that are processed in one second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The better this number, 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 most pixels that the graphics card could possibly write to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel output rate also depends on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.