GeForce GT 1030 vs Radeon RX Vega 64

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon RX Vega 64, which makes use of a 14 nm design. AMD has clocked the core frequency at 1247 MHz. The HBM2 memory works at a speed of 1890 MHz on this model. It features 4096 SPUs as well as 256 TAUs and 64 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GT 1030		30 Watts
Radeon RX Vega 64		295 Watts
	Difference: 265 Watts (883%)

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the Radeon RX Vega 64 should theoretically be much superior to the GeForce GT 1030 in general. (explain)

Radeon RX Vega 64		495411 MB/sec
GeForce GT 1030		49152 MB/sec
	Difference: 446259 (908%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX Vega 64 will be quite a bit (approximately 689%) better at AF than the GeForce GT 1030. (explain)

Radeon RX Vega 64		319232 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GT 1030		40480 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 278752 (689%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high screen resolution is important to you, then the Radeon RX Vega 64 is the winner, by a large margin. (explain)

Radeon RX Vega 64		79808 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GT 1030		20240 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 59568 (294%)

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 (measured in MB per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface within a second. It is calculated by multiplying the bus width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that are processed per second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the 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 maximum amount of pixels that the graphics chip could possibly write to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel rate also depends on quite a few other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.