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GeForce GT 1030 vs Radeon RX 5500

Intro

The GeForce GT 1030 has a GPU core speed of 1265 MHz, and the 2048 MB of GDDR5 RAM runs at 1502 MHz through a 64-bit bus. It also is made up of 384 Stream Processors, 32 Texture Address Units, and 16 ROPs.

Compare those specs to the Radeon RX 5500, which comes with a clock frequency of 1670 MHz and a GDDR6 memory speed of 1750 MHz. It also makes use of a 128-bit bus, and makes use of a 7 nm design. It features 1408 SPUs, 88 Texture Address Units, and 32 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GT 1030 30 Watts
Radeon RX 5500 150 Watts
Difference: 120 Watts (400%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon RX 5500 should perform much faster than the GeForce GT 1030 overall. (explain)

Radeon RX 5500 229376 MB/sec
GeForce GT 1030 49152 MB/sec
Difference: 180224 (367%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 5500 will be quite a bit (more or less 263%) better at texture filtering than the GeForce GT 1030. (explain)

Radeon RX 5500 146960 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GT 1030 40480 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 106480 (263%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon RX 5500 should be much (about 164%) more effective at full screen anti-aliasing than the GeForce GT 1030, and should be capable of handling higher resolutions better. (explain)

Radeon RX 5500 53440 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GT 1030 20240 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 33200 (164%)

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

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GeForce GT 1030

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Specifications

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Model GeForce GT 1030 Radeon RX 5500
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year May 2017 October 2019
Code Name GP108-300 Navi 14 XT
Memory 2048 MB 4096 MB
Core Speed 1265 MHz 1670 MHz
Memory Speed 6008 MHz 3500 GB/s
Power (Max TDP) 30 watts 150 watts
Bandwidth 49152 MB/sec 229376 MB/sec
Texel Rate 40480 Mtexels/sec 146960 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 20240 Mpixels/sec 53440 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 384 1408
Texture Mapping Units 32 88
Render Output Units 16 32
Bus Type GDDR5 GDDR6
Bus Width 64-bit 128-bit
Fab Process 16 nm 7 nm
Transistors 3300 million 6400 million
Bus PCIe 3.0 x16 PCIe 4.0 ×16
DirectX Version DirectX 12.0 DirectX 12
OpenGL Version OpenGL 4.5 OpenGL 4.6

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the largest amount of information (counted in MB per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface in a second. It is worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the card's 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 number of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed per second. This is worked out by multiplying the total texture units 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 processed in a second.

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

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GeForce GT 1030

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Radeon RX 5500

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Please note that the price comparisons are based on search keywords - sometimes it might show cards with very similar names that are not exactly the same as the one chosen in the comparison. We do try to filter out the wrong results as best we can, though.

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