GeForce GT 1030 vs Radeon RX 6600

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon RX 6600, which uses a 7 nm design. AMD has clocked the core speed at 1626 MHz. The GDDR6 memory is set to run at a speed of 1750 MHz on this particular model. It features 1792 SPUs as well as 112 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 RX 6600		132 Watts
	Difference: 102 Watts (340%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon RX 6600 should in theory be a lot faster than the GeForce GT 1030 in general. (explain)

Radeon RX 6600		229376 MB/sec
GeForce GT 1030		49152 MB/sec
	Difference: 180224 (367%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 6600 is quite a bit (about 350%) more effective at AF than the GeForce GT 1030. (explain)

Radeon RX 6600		182112 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GT 1030		40480 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 141632 (350%)

Pixel Rate

If using high levels of AA is important to you, then the Radeon RX 6600 is superior to the GeForce GT 1030, by a large margin. (explain)

Radeon RX 6600		104064 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GT 1030		20240 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 83824 (414%)

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 maximum amount of information (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface in a second. It's calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR memory, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the graphics card can possibly record to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel rate is also dependant on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.