NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 DDR4 vs AMD Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 DDR4

AMD Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GT 1030 DDR4 and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition 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 late

Boost Clock1379MHz

Lower TDP (20W vs 175W)

AMD Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 16.80GB/s)

896 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 1030 DDR4

1.059 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition +141%

2.56 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 1030 DDR4

VS

Radeon HD 7870 GHz Edition

Graphics Card

Mar 2018

Release Date

Mar 2012

GeForce 10

Generation

Southern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x4

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1152 MHz

Base Clock

-

1379 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1050 MHz

Memory Clock

1200 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

DDR4

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

256bit

16.80GB/s

Bandwidth

153.6GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

20

3

SM Count

-

384

Shading Units

1280

24

TMUs

80

16

ROPs

32

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

22.06 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

32.00 GPixel/s

33.10 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

80.00 GTexel/s

16.55 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

1059 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.560 TFLOPS

33.10 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

160.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

20W

TDP

175W

200 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

None

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GP108

GPU Name

Pitcairn

GP108-310-A1

GPU Variant

Pitcairn XT (215-0828047)

Pascal

Architecture

GCN 1.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.8 billion

Transistors

2.8 billion

74 mm²

Die Size

212 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

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