GeForce GT 1030 vs Radeon VII

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon VII, which uses a 7 nm design. AMD has set the core frequency at 1400 MHz. The HBM2 RAM works at a speed of 1000 MHz on this model. It features 3840 SPUs along with 240 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 VII		295 Watts
	Difference: 265 Watts (883%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon VII, in theory, should be much faster than the GeForce GT 1030 in general. (explain)

Radeon VII		1048576 MB/sec
GeForce GT 1030		49152 MB/sec
	Difference: 999424 (2033%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon VII is quite a bit (approximately 730%) better at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GT 1030. (explain)

Radeon VII		336000 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GT 1030		40480 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 295520 (730%)

Pixel Rate

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

Radeon VII		89600 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GT 1030		20240 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 69360 (343%)

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 (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface in one second. It is calculated by multiplying the bus width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics card can possibly record to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the number of ROPs by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel rate also depends on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.