GeForce GT 1030 DDR4 vs Radeon R5 230
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GT 1030 DDR4 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon R5 230 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce GT 1030 DDR4 's Advantages
Released 3 years and 11 months late
Boost Clock1379MHz
More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (16.80GB/s vs 10.67GB/s)
224 additional rendering cores
Radeon R5 230 's Advantages
Lower TDP (19W vs 20W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GT 1030 DDR4
+429%
1059
Radeon R5 230
200
3DMark Time Spy
GeForce GT 1030 DDR4
638
Radeon R5 230
+1340%
9189
Graphics Card
Mar 2018
Release Date
Apr 2014
GeForce 10
Generation
Volcanic Islands
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x4
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1152 MHz
Base Clock
-
1379 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1050 MHz
Memory Clock
667 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
1024MB
DDR4
Memory Type
DDR3
64bit
Memory Bus
64bit
16.80GB/s
Bandwidth
10.67GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
2
3
SM Count
-
384
Shading Units
160
24
TMUs
8
16
ROPs
4
48 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
8 KB (per CU)
512 KB
L2 Cache
128 KB
Theoretical Performance
22.06 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
2.500 GPixel/s
33.10 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
5.000 GTexel/s
16.55 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
1059 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
200.0 GFLOPS
33.10 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
20W
TDP
19W
200 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI 1.3a
1x VGA
None
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GP108
GPU Name
Caicos
GP108-310-A1
GPU Variant
Caicos PRO
Pascal
Architecture
TeraScale 2
Samsung
Foundry
TSMC
14 nm
Process Size
40 nm
1.8 billion
Transistors
0.37 billion
74 mm²
Die Size
67 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.4
3.0
OpenCL
1.2
1.3
Vulkan
N/A
6.1
CUDA
-
6.4
Shader Model
5.0