GeForce GT 1030 vs Radeon RX 5600 XT

Intro

Compare all of that to the Radeon RX 5600 XT, which uses a 7 nm design. AMD has clocked the core speed at 1375 MHz. The GDDR6 RAM runs at a frequency of 1500 MHz on this specific card. It features 2304 SPUs along with 144 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 5600 XT		160 Watts
	Difference: 130 Watts (433%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the Radeon RX 5600 XT will be 600% faster than the GeForce GT 1030 in general, due to its greater bandwidth. (explain)

Radeon RX 5600 XT		344064 MB/sec
GeForce GT 1030		49152 MB/sec
	Difference: 294912 (600%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 5600 XT will be quite a bit (about 389%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GT 1030. (explain)

Radeon RX 5600 XT		198000 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GT 1030		40480 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 157520 (389%)

Pixel Rate

If using high levels of AA is important to you, then the Radeon RX 5600 XT is a better choice, by far. (explain)

Radeon RX 5600 XT		88000 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GT 1030		20240 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 67760 (335%)

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 largest amount of information (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface within a second. It is calculated by multiplying the bus width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR type memory, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed in one second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core 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 in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics card can possibly record to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel fill rate also depends on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.