GeForce GT 1030 DDR4 vs Radeon RX 580
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GT 1030 DDR4 and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 580 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce GT 1030 DDR4 's Advantages
Released 11 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 3% (1379MHz vs 1340MHz)
Lower TDP (20W vs 185W)
Radeon RX 580 's Advantages
More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.0GB/s vs 16.80GB/s)
1920 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GT 1030 DDR4
1059
Radeon RX 580
+483%
6175
3DMark Time Spy
GeForce GT 1030 DDR4
638
Radeon RX 580
+581%
4347
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
GeForce GT 1030 DDR4
177
Radeon RX 580
+1011%
1968
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p
GeForce GT 1030 DDR4
2
Radeon RX 580
+750%
17
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p
GeForce GT 1030 DDR4
7
Radeon RX 580
+400%
35
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p
GeForce GT 1030 DDR4
12
Radeon RX 580
+316%
50
Battlefield 5 2160p
GeForce GT 1030 DDR4
1
Radeon RX 580
+2600%
27
Battlefield 5 1440p
GeForce GT 1030 DDR4
17
Radeon RX 580
+217%
54
Battlefield 5 1080p
GeForce GT 1030 DDR4
22
Radeon RX 580
+254%
78
Graphics Card
Mar 2018
Release Date
Apr 2017
GeForce 10
Generation
Polaris
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x4
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1152 MHz
Base Clock
1257 MHz
1379 MHz
Boost Clock
1340 MHz
1050 MHz
Memory Clock
2000 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
8GB
DDR4
Memory Type
GDDR5
64bit
Memory Bus
256bit
16.80GB/s
Bandwidth
256.0GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
36
3
SM Count
-
384
Shading Units
2304
24
TMUs
144
16
ROPs
32
48 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
512 KB
L2 Cache
2 MB
Theoretical Performance
22.06 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
42.88 GPixel/s
33.10 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
193.0 GTexel/s
16.55 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
6.175 TFLOPS
1059 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
6.175 TFLOPS
33.10 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
385.9 GFLOPS
Board Design
20W
TDP
185W
200 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.0b
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
None
Power Connectors
1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
GP108
GPU Name
Polaris 20
GP108-310-A1
GPU Variant
Polaris 20 XTX
(215-0910038)
Pascal
Architecture
GCN 4.0
Samsung
Foundry
GlobalFoundries
14 nm
Process Size
14 nm
1.8 billion
Transistors
5.7 billion
74 mm²
Die Size
232 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
12 (12_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
2.1
1.3
Vulkan
1.2
6.1
CUDA
-
6.4
Shader Model
6.4