GeForce GT 1030 vs Radeon HD 4550 512MB

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon HD 4550 512MB, which uses a 55 nm design. AMD has clocked the core speed at 600 MHz. The GDDR3 RAM runs at a frequency of 800 MHz on this specific card. It features 80(16x5) SPUs along with 8 Texture Address Units and 4 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

Radeon HD 4550 512MB		25 Watts
GeForce GT 1030		30 Watts
	Difference: 5 Watts (20%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the GeForce GT 1030 should perform a lot faster than the Radeon HD 4550 512MB in general. (explain)

GeForce GT 1030		49152 MB/sec
Radeon HD 4550 512MB		12800 MB/sec
	Difference: 36352 (284%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GT 1030 will be quite a bit (about 743%) better at anisotropic filtering than the Radeon HD 4550 512MB. (explain)

GeForce GT 1030		40480 Mtexels/sec
Radeon HD 4550 512MB		4800 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 35680 (743%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high resolution is important to you, then the GeForce GT 1030 is superior to the Radeon HD 4550 512MB, by far. (explain)

GeForce GT 1030		20240 Mpixels/sec
Radeon HD 4550 512MB		2400 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 17840 (743%)

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 information (counted in MB per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface in a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the memory bandwidth, 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 is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the video card could possibly write to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel fill rate also depends 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.