GeForce GT 1030 vs Radeon RX 5600 XT

Intro

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

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon RX 5600 XT should perform quite a bit faster than the GeForce GT 1030 overall. (explain)

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

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 5600 XT is quite a bit (approximately 389%) better at AF than the GeForce GT 1030. (explain)

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

Pixel Rate

The Radeon RX 5600 XT will be quite a bit (approximately 335%) more effective at FSAA than the GeForce GT 1030, and also will be capable of handling higher screen resolutions better. (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: Memory bandwidth is the max amount of information (counted in MB per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface in a second. It is worked out by multiplying the bus width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR memory, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the bandwidth is, 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 texture map elements (texels) that can be processed per second. This is calculated by multiplying the total texture units by the core speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the video 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 most pixels that the graphics chip could possibly record to the local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the amount of ROPs by the the core 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 rate also depends on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.