GeForce GT 1030 vs Radeon RX 7900 XTX

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon RX 7900 XTX, which has a clock speed of 1855 MHz and a GDDR6 memory speed of 2500 MHz. It also uses a 384-bit memory bus, and uses a 5 nm design. It is comprised of 6144 SPUs, 384 Texture Address Units, and 192 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GT 1030		30 Watts
Radeon RX 7900 XTX		355 Watts
	Difference: 325 Watts (1083%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically, the Radeon RX 7900 XTX should perform quite a bit faster than the GeForce GT 1030 overall. (explain)

Radeon RX 7900 XTX		983040 MB/sec
GeForce GT 1030		49152 MB/sec
	Difference: 933888 (1900%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 7900 XTX should be quite a bit (approximately 1660%) faster with regards to AF than the GeForce GT 1030. (explain)

Radeon RX 7900 XTX		712320 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GT 1030		40480 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 671840 (1660%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon RX 7900 XTX will be much (more or less 1660%) better at AA than the GeForce GT 1030, and also should be able to handle higher screen resolutions without losing too much performance. (explain)

Radeon RX 7900 XTX		356160 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GT 1030		20240 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 335920 (1660%)

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: Memory bandwidth is the maximum amount of information (measured in megabytes per second) that can be moved across the external memory interface within a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR memory, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the faster 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 texture map elements (texels) that can be processed per second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics chip can possibly write to the local memory in one 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 sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel fill rate also depends on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.