GeForce GT 1030 vs Radeon RX Vega 56

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon RX Vega 56, which makes use of a 14 nm design. AMD has clocked the core speed at 1156 MHz. The HBM2 memory is set to run at a speed of 1600 MHz on this model. It features 3584 SPUs as well as 224 TAUs and 64 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GT 1030		30 Watts
Radeon RX Vega 56		210 Watts
	Difference: 180 Watts (600%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically, the Radeon RX Vega 56 should perform much faster than the GeForce GT 1030 in general. (explain)

Radeon RX Vega 56		419430 MB/sec
GeForce GT 1030		49152 MB/sec
	Difference: 370278 (753%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX Vega 56 should be quite a bit (more or less 540%) more effective at texture filtering than the GeForce GT 1030. (explain)

Radeon RX Vega 56		258944 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GT 1030		40480 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 218464 (540%)

Pixel Rate

If using high levels of AA is important to you, then the Radeon RX Vega 56 is a better choice, by far. (explain)

Radeon RX Vega 56		73984 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GT 1030		20240 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 53744 (266%)

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 megabytes per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface in one second. It's worked out by multiplying the bus width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR type RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be applied in one second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics card can possibly record to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the the core clock speed. 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 rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.