GeForce GT 1030 vs Radeon VII

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon VII, which makes use of a 7 nm design. AMD has set the core frequency at 1400 MHz. The HBM2 RAM is set to run at a frequency of 1000 MHz on this particular model. It features 3840 SPUs along with 240 Texture Address Units and 64 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GT 1030		30 Watts
Radeon VII		295 Watts
	Difference: 265 Watts (883%)

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the Radeon VII should in theory be a lot better than the GeForce GT 1030 in general. (explain)

Radeon VII		1048576 MB/sec
GeForce GT 1030		49152 MB/sec
	Difference: 999424 (2033%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon VII will be much (approximately 730%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the GeForce GT 1030. (explain)

Radeon VII		336000 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GT 1030		40480 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 295520 (730%)

Pixel Rate

If running with lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the Radeon VII is a better choice, and very much so. (explain)

Radeon VII		89600 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GT 1030		20240 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 69360 (343%)

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 (counted in megabytes per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface in a second. It's calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR type memory, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that can be applied in one second. This is worked out by multiplying the total texture units by the core speed of the chip. The better this number, the better the video 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 number of pixels the video card could possibly record to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the amount of Render Output Units by the the core clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel rate also depends 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 maximum fill rate.