GeForce GT 1030 vs Radeon RX 5500

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon RX 5500, which features core speeds of 1670 MHz on the GPU, and 1750 MHz on the 4096 MB of GDDR6 RAM. It features 1408 SPUs as well as 88 Texture Address Units and 32 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GT 1030		30 Watts
Radeon RX 5500		150 Watts
	Difference: 120 Watts (400%)

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the Radeon RX 5500 should in theory be much superior to the GeForce GT 1030 overall. (explain)

Radeon RX 5500		229376 MB/sec
GeForce GT 1030		49152 MB/sec
	Difference: 180224 (367%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 5500 will be quite a bit (approximately 263%) better at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GT 1030. (explain)

Radeon RX 5500		146960 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GT 1030		40480 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 106480 (263%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high resolution is important to you, then the Radeon RX 5500 is the winner, by a large margin. (explain)

Radeon RX 5500		53440 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GT 1030		20240 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 33200 (164%)

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 (measured in megabytes per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface in a second. It's 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 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 are processed per second. This figure is calculated 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 texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels the video card could possibly record to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the clock 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 output 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 ability to reach the max fill rate.