GeForce GT 1030 vs Radeon RX 5700

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon RX 5700, which has a clock speed of 1465 MHz and a GDDR6 memory speed of 1750 MHz. It also makes use of a 256-bit memory bus, and makes use of a 7 nm design. It features 2304 SPUs, 144 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 5700		180 Watts
	Difference: 150 Watts (500%)

Memory Bandwidth

As far as performance goes, the Radeon RX 5700 should theoretically be quite a bit better than the GeForce GT 1030 in general. (explain)

Radeon RX 5700		458752 MB/sec
GeForce GT 1030		49152 MB/sec
	Difference: 409600 (833%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 5700 should be a lot (about 421%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GT 1030. (explain)

Radeon RX 5700		210960 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GT 1030		40480 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 170480 (421%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon RX 5700 is a lot (more or less 363%) faster with regards to AA than the GeForce GT 1030, and able to handle higher resolutions without losing too much performance. (explain)

Radeon RX 5700		93760 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GT 1030		20240 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 73520 (363%)

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 over the external memory interface within a second. It is calculated by multiplying the bus width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR type RAM, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that can be applied per second. This figure is calculated by multiplying the total amount of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the graphics card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most 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 number of ROPs by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.