GeForce GT 1030 DDR4 vs Radeon HD 7870 XT
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GT 1030 DDR4 and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 7870 XT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce GT 1030 DDR4 's Advantages
Released 5 years and 4 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 41% (1379MHz vs 975MHz)
Lower TDP (20W vs 185W)
Radeon HD 7870 XT 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.0GB/s vs 16.80GB/s)
1152 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GT 1030 DDR4
1059
Radeon HD 7870 XT
+182%
2995
3DMark Time Spy
GeForce GT 1030 DDR4
638
Radeon HD 7870 XT
+177%
1773
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
GeForce GT 1030 DDR4
177
Radeon HD 7870 XT
+98%
352
Graphics Card
Mar 2018
Release Date
Nov 2012
GeForce 10
Generation
Southern Islands
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x4
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1152 MHz
Base Clock
925 MHz
1379 MHz
Boost Clock
975 MHz
1050 MHz
Memory Clock
1500 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
2GB
DDR4
Memory Type
GDDR5
64bit
Memory Bus
256bit
16.80GB/s
Bandwidth
192.0GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
24
3
SM Count
-
384
Shading Units
1536
24
TMUs
96
16
ROPs
32
48 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
512 KB
L2 Cache
512 KB
Theoretical Performance
22.06 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
31.20 GPixel/s
33.10 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
93.60 GTexel/s
16.55 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
1059 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
2.995 TFLOPS
33.10 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
748.8 GFLOPS
Board Design
20W
TDP
185W
200 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
None
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
GP108
GPU Name
Tahiti
GP108-310-A1
GPU Variant
Tahiti LE
(215-0821122)
Pascal
Architecture
GCN 1.0
Samsung
Foundry
TSMC
14 nm
Process Size
28 nm
1.8 billion
Transistors
4.313 billion
74 mm²
Die Size
352 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
12 (11_1)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
1.2
1.3
Vulkan
1.2
6.1
CUDA
-
6.4
Shader Model
5.1