AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030

Compare AMD Radeon RX 6900 XT 16 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030

Price

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$ 629.99

$ 129.95

$ 500.04 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

14121 points

1931% significantly better overall score

695 points

Flux Core frame rate

Volumetric ray casting test, a computationally expensive method of rendering high-quality scenes

286 FPS

271 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

15 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

208 FPS

198 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

10 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

257 FPS

246 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

10 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

122 FPS

114 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

8 FPS

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

4065 points

273% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

1087 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

2478.22 points

3339% significantly higher Blender score

72.05 points

Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

159528 points

3340% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

4637 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

170008 points

1486% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

10713 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

114610 points

1023% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

10201 points

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

208130 points

4388% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

4637 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

167644 points

1589% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

9924 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

171121 points

1717% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

9415 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1825 MHz

48% significantly higher core clock speed

1228 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

2250 MHz

53% significantly higher boost clock speed

1468 MHz

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit

300% significantly larger memory bus width

64 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

512 GB/s

965% significantly higher memory bandwidth

48.06 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

300 W

30 W

900% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

288 Gigapixels/s

1126% significantly higher pixel rate

23.49 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

720 Gigatexels/s

1943% significantly higher texture rate

35.23 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

5120

1233% significantly more shading units

384

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

320

1233% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

128

700% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

24th of 586

291st of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 6000 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 August

2017 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

Radeon RX 6900 XT vs GeForce GT 1030 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the Radeon RX 6900 XT beats the GeForce GT 1030 in gaming performance.

Our database shows that the Radeon RX 6900 XT has a significantly higher core clock speed. The core clock speed (or base speed) is the frequency at which the GPU core runs. This metric makes sense when comparing GPUs of a similar architecture or generation. In addition, the Radeon RX 6900 XT also has a significantly higher boost clock speed. The boost clock speed is the frequency that the GPU core can reach if the temperature is low enough. The allows for higher performance in certain scenarios.

In addition, the GeForce GT 1030 has a significantly lower TDP at 30 W when compared to the Radeon RX 6900 XT at 300 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the Radeon RX 6900 XT over the GeForce GT 1030.