GeForce GT 1030 vs Radeon RX 6900 XT

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon RX 6900 XT, which features clock speeds of 1825 MHz on the GPU, and 2000 MHz on the 16384 MB of GDDR6 RAM. It features 5120 SPUs as well as 320 Texture Address Units and 128 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GT 1030		30 Watts
Radeon RX 6900 XT		300 Watts
	Difference: 270 Watts (900%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon RX 6900 XT will be 967% quicker than the GeForce GT 1030 in general, due to its higher bandwidth. (explain)

Radeon RX 6900 XT		524288 MB/sec
GeForce GT 1030		49152 MB/sec
	Difference: 475136 (967%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 6900 XT should be quite a bit (approximately 1343%) better at AF than the GeForce GT 1030. (explain)

Radeon RX 6900 XT		584000 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GT 1030		40480 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 543520 (1343%)

Pixel Rate

If using high levels of AA is important to you, then the Radeon RX 6900 XT is the winner, and very much so. (explain)

Radeon RX 6900 XT		233600 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GT 1030		20240 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 213360 (1054%)

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 data (in units of MB per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface in one second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 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 anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the graphics card can possibly record to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines 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 also depends on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.