GeForce GT 1030 vs Radeon RX 560

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon RX 560, which features clock speeds of 1175 MHz on the GPU, and 1750 MHz on the 4096 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 1024 SPUs as well as 64 Texture Address Units and 16 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GT 1030		30 Watts
Radeon RX 560		80 Watts
	Difference: 50 Watts (167%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon RX 560 should theoretically be much faster than the GeForce GT 1030 overall. (explain)

Radeon RX 560		114688 MB/sec
GeForce GT 1030		49152 MB/sec
	Difference: 65536 (133%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 560 should be much (more or less 86%) more effective at texture filtering than the GeForce GT 1030. (explain)

Radeon RX 560		75200 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GT 1030		40480 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 34720 (86%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GT 1030 will be a small bit (about 8%) better at full screen anti-aliasing than the Radeon RX 560, and should be able to handle higher screen resolutions while still performing well. (explain)

GeForce GT 1030		20240 Mpixels/sec
Radeon RX 560		18800 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 1440 (8%)

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 largest amount of data (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface in one second. It is worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR type memory, it must be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the card's 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 amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be applied per second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the graphics card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels that the graphics chip can possibly record to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the clock 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 fill rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.