GeForce GT 1030 vs Radeon RX 470

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon RX 470, which features clock speeds of 926 MHz on the GPU, and 1650 MHz on the 8192 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 2048 SPUs as well as 128 Texture Address Units and 32 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GT 1030		30 Watts
Radeon RX 470		120 Watts
	Difference: 90 Watts (300%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon RX 470 should be much faster than the GeForce GT 1030 overall. (explain)

Radeon RX 470		211200 MB/sec
GeForce GT 1030		49152 MB/sec
	Difference: 162048 (330%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 470 is much (more or less 193%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the GeForce GT 1030. (explain)

Radeon RX 470		118528 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GT 1030		40480 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 78048 (193%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon RX 470 is a lot (approximately 46%) more effective at AA than the GeForce GT 1030, and also will be capable of handling higher screen resolutions without losing too much performance. (explain)

Radeon RX 470		29632 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GT 1030		20240 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 9392 (46%)

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 max amount of data (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface in one second. The number is calculated by multiplying the interface width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics card can possibly write to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.