NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 DDR4 vs AMD Radeon 550X

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NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 DDR4 AMD Radeon 550X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GT 1030 DDR4 and 2GB VRAM Radeon 550X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 DDR4 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 13% (1379MHz vs 1218MHz)

Lower TDP (20W vs 50W)

AMD Radeon 550X 's Advantages

Released 1 years late

Larger VRAM bandwidth (112.0GB/s vs 16.80GB/s)

128 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 1030 DDR4

1.059 TFLOPS

Radeon 550X +17%

1.247 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 1030 DDR4

VS

Radeon 550X

Graphics Card

Mar 2018

Release Date

Mar 2019

GeForce 10

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x4

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1152 MHz

Base Clock

1082 MHz

1379 MHz

Boost Clock

1218 MHz

1050 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

DDR4

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

128bit

16.80GB/s

Bandwidth

112.0GB/s

Render Config

3

SM Count

-

Compute Units

8

384

Shading Units

512

24

TMUs

32

16

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

22.06 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

19.49 GPixel/s

33.10 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

38.98 GTexel/s

16.55 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

1247 GFLOPS

1059 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1247 GFLOPS

33.10 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

77.95 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GP108

GPU Name

Lexa

GP108-310-A1

GPU Variant

Lexa PRO (215-0904018)

Pascal

Architecture

GCN 4.0

Samsung

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

14 nm

Process Size

14 nm

1.8 billion

Transistors

2.2 billion

74 mm²

Die Size

103 mm²

Board Design

20W

TDP

50W

200 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0b 1x DisplayPort 1.4a

None

Power Connectors

None

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

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