GeForce GT 1030 vs GeForce RTX 2070

Intro

Compare that to the GeForce RTX 2070, which makes use of a 12 nm design. nVidia has set the core speed at 1410 MHz. The GDDR6 RAM is set to run at a speed of 1750 MHz on this specific card. It features 2304 SPUs as well as 144 Texture Address Units and 64 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GT 1030		30 Watts
GeForce RTX 2070		175 Watts
	Difference: 145 Watts (483%)

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the GeForce RTX 2070 should in theory be quite a bit superior to the GeForce GT 1030 overall. (explain)

GeForce RTX 2070		458752 MB/sec
GeForce GT 1030		49152 MB/sec
	Difference: 409600 (833%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce RTX 2070 will be much (approximately 402%) better at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GT 1030. (explain)

GeForce RTX 2070		203040 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GT 1030		40480 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 162560 (402%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce RTX 2070 will be quite a bit (about 346%) better at FSAA than the GeForce GT 1030, and also will be capable of handling higher screen resolutions while still performing well. (explain)

GeForce RTX 2070		90240 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GT 1030		20240 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 70000 (346%)

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 maximum amount of information (measured in MB per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface in a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR type RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher 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 number 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 speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics chip can possibly write to its 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 the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called 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 of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.