GeForce GT 1030 vs Radeon Vega Frontier Edition

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon Vega Frontier Edition, which has a core clock frequency of 1382 MHz and a HBM2 memory speed of 1890 MHz. It also makes use of a 2048-bit memory bus, and uses a 14 nm design. It is comprised of 4096 SPUs, 256 TAUs, and 64 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GT 1030		30 Watts
Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		300 Watts
	Difference: 270 Watts (900%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon Vega Frontier Edition, in theory, should perform quite a bit faster than the GeForce GT 1030 overall. (explain)

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		495452 MB/sec
GeForce GT 1030		49152 MB/sec
	Difference: 446300 (908%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon Vega Frontier Edition is a lot (about 774%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the GeForce GT 1030. (explain)

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		353792 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GT 1030		40480 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 313312 (774%)

Pixel Rate

If using high levels of AA is important to you, then the Radeon Vega Frontier Edition is a better choice, by far. (explain)

Radeon Vega Frontier Edition		88448 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GT 1030		20240 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 68208 (337%)

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 (measured in megabytes per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface in a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the bus width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the graphics card can possibly write to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the the core 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, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.