GeForce GT 1030 vs Radeon RX 6900 XT

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon RX 6900 XT, which comes with a clock frequency of 1825 MHz and a GDDR6 memory speed of 2000 MHz. It also features a 256-bit memory bus, and makes use of a 7 nm design. It is made up of 5120 SPUs, 320 Texture Address Units, and 128 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GT 1030		30 Watts
Radeon RX 6900 XT		300 Watts
	Difference: 270 Watts (900%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon RX 6900 XT should in theory perform much faster than the GeForce GT 1030 overall. (explain)

Radeon RX 6900 XT		524288 MB/sec
GeForce GT 1030		49152 MB/sec
	Difference: 475136 (967%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 6900 XT should be much (about 1343%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GT 1030. (explain)

Radeon RX 6900 XT		584000 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GT 1030		40480 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 543520 (1343%)

Pixel Rate

The Radeon RX 6900 XT is quite a bit (approximately 1054%) faster with regards to AA than the GeForce GT 1030, and also capable of handling higher screen resolutions without slowing down too much. (explain)

Radeon RX 6900 XT		233600 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GT 1030		20240 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 213360 (1054%)

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 MB per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface in a second. It is worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by the speed of its memory. If the card has DDR memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, 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 amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be applied in one second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total texture units by the core speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed in a second.

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