GeForce GT 1030 vs Radeon RX 460 2GB

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon RX 460 2GB, which features clock speeds of 1090 MHz on the GPU, and 1750 MHz on the 2048 MB of GDDR5 memory. It features 896 SPUs as well as 56 Texture Address Units and 16 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GT 1030		30 Watts
Radeon RX 460 2GB		75 Watts
	Difference: 45 Watts (150%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon RX 460 2GB is 128% quicker than the GeForce GT 1030 overall, because of its greater data rate. (explain)

Radeon RX 460 2GB		112000 MB/sec
GeForce GT 1030		49152 MB/sec
	Difference: 62848 (128%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 460 2GB should be much (more or less 51%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GT 1030. (explain)

Radeon RX 460 2GB		61040 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GT 1030		40480 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 20560 (51%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GT 1030 is a bit (approximately 16%) more effective at AA than the Radeon RX 460 2GB, and capable of handling higher resolutions better. (explain)

GeForce GT 1030		20240 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 460 2GB		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: Memory bandwidth is the maximum amount of information (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface in a second. It's calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the video card could possibly write to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel rate also depends on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.