GeForce GT 1030 vs Radeon RX Vega 64

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon RX Vega 64, which features core speeds of 1247 MHz on the GPU, and 1890 MHz on the 8192 MB of HBM2 RAM. It features 4096 SPUs along with 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

In theory, the Radeon RX Vega 64 is 908% quicker than the GeForce GT 1030 overall, because of its greater bandwidth. (explain)

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

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX Vega 64 is quite a bit (about 689%) more effective 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

The Radeon RX Vega 64 is a lot (approximately 294%) better at full screen anti-aliasing than the GeForce GT 1030, and should be able to handle higher screen resolutions better. (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: Bandwidth is the maximum amount of data (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface in a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the bus width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR type RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the memory bandwidth, 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 number of texture map elements (texels) that are applied per second. This is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The better 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 maximum number of pixels that the graphics chip can possibly write to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the number of ROPs by the the core speed of the card. 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 memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.