GeForce GT 1030 vs Radeon HD 4750

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon HD 4750, which makes use of a 40 nm design. AMD has clocked the core speed at 730 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM works at a speed of 800 MHz on this specific card. It features 640(128x5) SPUs along with 32 TAUs and 16 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GT 1030		30 Watts
Radeon HD 4750		75 Watts
	Difference: 45 Watts (150%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon HD 4750, in theory, should perform a bit faster than the GeForce GT 1030 in general. (explain)

Radeon HD 4750		51200 MB/sec
GeForce GT 1030		49152 MB/sec
	Difference: 2048 (4%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GT 1030 will be a lot (approximately 73%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the Radeon HD 4750. (explain)

GeForce GT 1030		40480 Mtexels/sec
Radeon HD 4750		23360 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 17120 (73%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GT 1030 is quite a bit (approximately 73%) better at AA than the Radeon HD 4750, and will be capable of handling higher screen resolutions while still performing well. (explain)

GeForce GT 1030		20240 Mpixels/sec
Radeon HD 4750		11680 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 8560 (73%)

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 maximum amount of information (in units of MB per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface within a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the bus width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR type memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the 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 amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be applied in one second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the graphics card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the graphics card could possibly record to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the number of ROPs by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel output rate is also dependant on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.