GeForce GT 1030 DDR4 vs Radeon R9 280X2
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GT 1030 DDR4 and 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280X2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce GT 1030 DDR4 's Advantages
Boost Clock has increased by 38% (1379MHz vs 1000MHz)
Lower TDP (20W vs 375W)
Radeon R9 280X2 's Advantages
More VRAM (3GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 16.80GB/s)
1664 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GT 1030 DDR4
1059
Radeon R9 280X2
+286%
4096
Graphics Card
Mar 2018
Release Date
Unknown
GeForce 10
Generation
Volcanic Islands
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x4
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1152 MHz
Base Clock
950 MHz
1379 MHz
Boost Clock
1000 MHz
1050 MHz
Memory Clock
1500 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
3GB
DDR4
Memory Type
GDDR5
64bit
Memory Bus
384bit
16.80GB/s
Bandwidth
288.0GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
32
3
SM Count
-
384
Shading Units
2048
24
TMUs
128
16
ROPs
32
48 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
512 KB
L2 Cache
768 KB
Theoretical Performance
22.06 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
32.00 GPixel/s
33.10 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
128.0 GTexel/s
16.55 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
1059 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
4.096 TFLOPS
33.10 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
1024 GFLOPS
Board Design
20W
TDP
375W
200 W
Suggested PSU
750 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
Outputs
6x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
None
Power Connectors
3x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
GP108
GPU Name
Tahiti
GP108-310-A1
GPU Variant
Tahiti XTL
(215-0821065)
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
