GeForce 9800 GTX vs GeForce GT 1030

Intro

Compare all of that to the GeForce GT 1030, which comes with clock speeds of 1265 MHz on the GPU, and 1502 MHz on the 2048 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 384 SPUs along with 32 Texture Address Units and 16 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GT 1030		30 Watts
GeForce 9800 GTX		140 Watts
	Difference: 110 Watts (367%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the GeForce 9800 GTX will be 43% faster than the GeForce GT 1030 overall, because of its greater bandwidth. (explain)

GeForce 9800 GTX		70400 MB/sec
GeForce GT 1030		49152 MB/sec
	Difference: 21248 (43%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce 9800 GTX will be just a bit (more or less 7%) more effective at texture filtering than the GeForce GT 1030. (explain)

GeForce 9800 GTX		43200 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GT 1030		40480 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 2720 (7%)

Pixel Rate

If using lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the GeForce GT 1030 is the winner, by a large margin. (explain)

GeForce GT 1030		20240 Mpixels/sec
GeForce 9800 GTX		10800 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 9440 (87%)

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 largest amount of data (counted in MB per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface in a second. It's calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR type RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

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

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