NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 DDR4 vs AMD Radeon HD 6850 X2
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GT 1030 DDR4 and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6850 X2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 DDR4 's Advantages
Released 6 years and 6 months late
Boost Clock1379MHz
Lower TDP (20W vs 254W)
AMD Radeon HD 6850 X2 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (134.4GB/s vs 16.80GB/s)
576 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GT 1030 DDR4
1.059 TFLOPS
Radeon HD 6850 X2
+45%
1.536 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Mar 2018
Release Date
Sep 2011
GeForce 10
Generation
Northern 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
1050 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
2GB
DDR4
Memory Type
GDDR5
64bit
Memory Bus
256bit
16.80GB/s
Bandwidth
134.4GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
12
3
SM Count
-
384
Shading Units
960
24
TMUs
48
16
ROPs
32
-
-
-
-
-
-
48 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
8 KB (per CU)
512 KB
L2 Cache
512 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
22.06 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
25.60 GPixel/s
33.10 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
38.40 GTexel/s
16.55 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
1059 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1.536 TFLOPS
33.10 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
20W
TDP
254W
200 W
Suggested PSU
600 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
Outputs
2x DVI
1x HDMI 1.3a
1x DisplayPort 1.1
None
Power Connectors
2x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
GP108
GPU Name
Barts
GP108-310-A1
GPU Variant
Barts PRO
(215-0798006)
Pascal
Architecture
TeraScale 2
Samsung
Foundry
TSMC
14 nm
Process Size
40 nm
1.8 billion
Transistors
1.7 billion
74 mm²
Die Size
255 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
