GeForce GT 1030 vs Radeon RX Vega 56

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon RX Vega 56, which has core speeds of 1156 MHz on the GPU, and 1600 MHz on the 8192 MB of HBM2 RAM. It features 3584 SPUs as well as 224 Texture Address Units and 64 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GT 1030		30 Watts
Radeon RX Vega 56		210 Watts
	Difference: 180 Watts (600%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon RX Vega 56 is 753% faster than the GeForce GT 1030 in general, because of its higher data rate. (explain)

Radeon RX Vega 56		419430 MB/sec
GeForce GT 1030		49152 MB/sec
	Difference: 370278 (753%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX Vega 56 should be quite a bit (approximately 540%) faster with regards to AF than the GeForce GT 1030. (explain)

Radeon RX Vega 56		258944 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GT 1030		40480 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 218464 (540%)

Pixel Rate

If running with lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the Radeon RX Vega 56 is the winner, by far. (explain)

Radeon RX Vega 56		73984 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GT 1030		20240 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 53744 (266%)

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 max amount of data (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface in a second. It's worked out by multiplying the interface width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR type memory, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses 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 high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that are applied in one second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total texture units by the core 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 per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics chip can possibly write to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for filling the screen with pixels (the image). The actual pixel rate is also dependant on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.