GeForce GT 1030 vs Radeon RX 6800

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon RX 6800, which has GPU core speed of 1700 MHz, and 16384 MB of GDDR6 RAM running at 2000 MHz through a 256-bit bus. It also is comprised of 3840 SPUs, 240 Texture Address Units, and 96 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GT 1030		30 Watts
Radeon RX 6800		250 Watts
	Difference: 220 Watts (733%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon RX 6800 should be quite a bit faster than the GeForce GT 1030 in general. (explain)

Radeon RX 6800		524288 MB/sec
GeForce GT 1030		49152 MB/sec
	Difference: 475136 (967%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 6800 should be a lot (about 908%) better at AF than the GeForce GT 1030. (explain)

Radeon RX 6800		408000 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GT 1030		40480 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 367520 (908%)

Pixel Rate

If using high levels of AA is important to you, then the Radeon RX 6800 is a better choice, and very much so. (explain)

Radeon RX 6800		163200 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GT 1030		20240 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 142960 (706%)

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 largest amount of information (in units of megabytes per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface in one second. It's calculated by multiplying the bus width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR type memory, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the video card could possibly write to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the clock 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 output rate is also dependant on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.