NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 DDR4 vs AMD Radeon R9 290

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 DDR4

AMD Radeon R9 290

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GT 1030 DDR4 and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290 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 4 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock1379MHz

Lower TDP (20W vs 275W)

AMD Radeon R9 290 's Advantages

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 16.80GB/s)

2176 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 1030 DDR4

1.059 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290 +357%

4.849 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce GT 1030 DDR4

619

Radeon R9 290 +495%

3684

GeForce GT 1030 DDR4

VS

Radeon R9 290

Graphics Card

Mar 2018

Release Date

Nov 2013

GeForce 10

Generation

Volcanic 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

1250 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

4GB

DDR4

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

512bit

16.80GB/s

Bandwidth

320.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

40

3

SM Count

-

384

Shading Units

2560

24

TMUs

160

16

ROPs

64

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

22.06 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

60.61 GPixel/s

33.10 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

151.5 GTexel/s

16.55 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

1059 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.849 TFLOPS

33.10 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

606.1 GFLOPS

Board Design

20W

TDP

275W

200 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0

Outputs

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

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GP108

GPU Name

Hawaii

GP108-310-A1

GPU Variant

Hawaii PRO (215-0852020)

Pascal

Architecture

GCN 2.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.8 billion

Transistors

6.2 billion

74 mm²

Die Size

438 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

6.1

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

6.3

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