GeForce GT 1030 vs Radeon RX 570

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon RX 570, which has GPU clock speed of 1168 MHz, and 4096 MB of GDDR5 memory set to run at 1750 MHz through a 256-bit bus. It also is comprised of 2048 SPUs, 128 TAUs, and 32 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GT 1030		30 Watts
Radeon RX 570		150 Watts
	Difference: 120 Watts (400%)

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the Radeon RX 570 should theoretically be a lot superior to the GeForce GT 1030 in general. (explain)

Radeon RX 570		229376 MB/sec
GeForce GT 1030		49152 MB/sec
	Difference: 180224 (367%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 570 should be much (about 269%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GT 1030. (explain)

Radeon RX 570		149504 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GT 1030		40480 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 109024 (269%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon RX 570 should be quite a bit (approximately 85%) more effective at FSAA than the GeForce GT 1030, and able to handle higher resolutions while still performing well. (explain)

Radeon RX 570		37376 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GT 1030		20240 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 17136 (85%)

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 max amount of information (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface in a second. It is worked out by multiplying the interface width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If 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 higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that are applied in one second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the video 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 maximum number of pixels that the graphics chip could possibly record to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.