NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 DDR4 vs AMD Radeon RX 590

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 DDR4

AMD Radeon RX 590

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GT 1030 DDR4 and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 590 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 DDR4 's Advantages

Lower TDP (20W vs 175W)

AMD Radeon RX 590 's Advantages

Released 8 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 12% (1545MHz vs 1379MHz)

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

1.059 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 590 +572%

7.119 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce GT 1030 DDR4

619

Radeon RX 590 +668%

4757

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce GT 1030 DDR4

2

Radeon RX 590 +1100%

24

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce GT 1030 DDR4

7

Radeon RX 590 +557%

46

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce GT 1030 DDR4

12

Radeon RX 590 +491%

71

Battlefield 5 2160p

GeForce GT 1030 DDR4

1

Radeon RX 590 +3800%

39

Battlefield 5 1440p

GeForce GT 1030 DDR4

17

Radeon RX 590 +335%

74

Battlefield 5 1080p

GeForce GT 1030 DDR4

22

Radeon RX 590 +359%

101

GeForce GT 1030 DDR4

VS

Radeon RX 590

Graphics Card

Mar 2018

Release Date

Nov 2018

GeForce 10

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x4

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1152 MHz

Base Clock

1469 MHz

1379 MHz

Boost Clock

1545 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

49.44 GPixel/s

33.10 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

222.5 GTexel/s

16.55 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

7.119 TFLOPS

1059 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

7.119 TFLOPS

33.10 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

445.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

20W

TDP

175W

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 30

GP108-310-A1

GPU Variant

Polaris 30 XT (215-0922006)

Pascal

Architecture

GCN 4.0

Samsung

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

14 nm

Process Size

12 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

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