GeForce GT 1030 vs Radeon RX 5700 XT

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon RX 5700 XT, which uses a 7 nm design. AMD has clocked the core speed at 1605 MHz. The GDDR6 RAM works at a speed of 1750 MHz on this particular card. It features 2560 SPUs as well as 160 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 RX 5700 XT		225 Watts
	Difference: 195 Watts (650%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon RX 5700 XT should theoretically be quite a bit faster than the GeForce GT 1030 in general. (explain)

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

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 5700 XT should be quite a bit (approximately 534%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GT 1030. (explain)

Radeon RX 5700 XT		256800 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GT 1030		40480 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 216320 (534%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon RX 5700 XT is a lot (about 408%) better at FSAA than the GeForce GT 1030, and also will be capable of handling higher screen resolutions while still performing well. (explain)

Radeon RX 5700 XT		102720 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GT 1030		20240 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 82480 (408%)

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 information (counted in megabytes per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface within a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR type memory, it must be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the bandwidth is, 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 amount of texture map elements (texels) that are processed in one second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total number of texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The better the texel rate, the better the 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 card can possibly record to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the amount of colour ROPs by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel fill rate also depends on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.