GeForce GT 1030 vs Radeon RX 6600

Intro

Compare that to the Radeon RX 6600, which has core clock speeds of 1626 MHz on the GPU, and 1750 MHz on the 8192 MB of GDDR6 memory. It features 1792 SPUs as well as 112 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 6600		132 Watts
	Difference: 102 Watts (340%)

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically, the Radeon RX 6600 should perform quite a bit faster than the GeForce GT 1030 in general. (explain)

Radeon RX 6600		229376 MB/sec
GeForce GT 1030		49152 MB/sec
	Difference: 180224 (367%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon RX 6600 should be a lot (approximately 350%) better at texture filtering than the GeForce GT 1030. (explain)

Radeon RX 6600		182112 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GT 1030		40480 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 141632 (350%)

Pixel Rate

If using lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the Radeon RX 6600 is the winner, by a large margin. (explain)

Radeon RX 6600		104064 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GT 1030		20240 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 83824 (414%)

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 maximum amount of information (in units of megabytes per second) that can be moved over the external memory interface in one second. The number is worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR type RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum number of texture map elements (texels) that are processed in one second. This is calculated by multiplying the total number of texture units by the core speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the graphics card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the video card could possibly write to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is worked out by multiplying the amount of Raster Operations Pipelines by the clock speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel output rate also depends on quite a few other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.