GeForce GT 1030 vs Radeon RX 5600 XT

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon RX 5600 XT, which features GPU core speed of 1375 MHz, and 6144 MB of GDDR6 RAM running at 1500 MHz through a 192-bit bus. It also features 2304 Stream Processors, 144 Texture Address Units, and 64 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GT 1030		30 Watts
Radeon RX 5600 XT		160 Watts
	Difference: 130 Watts (433%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically, the Radeon RX 5600 XT should be a lot faster than the GeForce GT 1030 overall. (explain)

Radeon RX 5600 XT		344064 MB/sec
GeForce GT 1030		49152 MB/sec
	Difference: 294912 (600%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 5600 XT is quite a bit (about 389%) better at AF than the GeForce GT 1030. (explain)

Radeon RX 5600 XT		198000 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GT 1030		40480 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 157520 (389%)

Pixel Rate

If running with lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the Radeon RX 5600 XT is superior to the GeForce GT 1030, by a large margin. (explain)

Radeon RX 5600 XT		88000 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GT 1030		20240 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 67760 (335%)

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 (measured in MB per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface in a second. It's calculated by multiplying the bus width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the graphics card could 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 ROPs by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel rate is also dependant on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.