GeForce GT 1030 vs Radeon RX 460

Intro

Compare those specifications to the Radeon RX 460, which features GPU clock speed of 1090 MHz, and 4096 MB of GDDR5 memory running at 1750 MHz through a 128-bit bus. It also is made up of 896 Stream Processors, 56 TAUs, and 16 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GT 1030		30 Watts
Radeon RX 460		75 Watts
	Difference: 45 Watts (150%)

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the Radeon RX 460 should theoretically be a lot superior to the GeForce GT 1030 in general. (explain)

Radeon RX 460		112000 MB/sec
GeForce GT 1030		49152 MB/sec
	Difference: 62848 (128%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 460 will be much (about 51%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GT 1030. (explain)

Radeon RX 460		61040 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GT 1030		40480 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 20560 (51%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high screen resolution is important to you, then the GeForce GT 1030 is a better choice, though only just barely. (explain)

GeForce GT 1030		20240 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 460		17440 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 2800 (16%)

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 (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface in one second. The number is worked out by multiplying the bus width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR type RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the better 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 texture map elements (texels) that can be processed in one second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed in a 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. The number is worked out by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the card's 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 output rate also depends on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.