NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 GK107 vs AMD Radeon R9 290

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 GK107

AMD Radeon R9 290

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GT 1030 GK107 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 GK107 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 10 months late

Lower TDP (65W vs 275W)

AMD Radeon R9 290 's Advantages

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 80.00GB/s)

2176 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 1030 GK107

0.812 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290 +497%

4.849 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 1030 GK107

VS

Radeon R9 290

Graphics Card

Sep 2018

Release Date

Nov 2013

GeForce 10

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

512bit

80.00GB/s

Bandwidth

320.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

40

-

384

Shading Units

2560

32

TMUs

160

16

ROPs

64

-

16 KB (per SMX)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

8.464 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

60.61 GPixel/s

33.86 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

151.5 GTexel/s

-

812.5 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.849 TFLOPS

33.86 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

606.1 GFLOPS

Board Design

65W

TDP

275W

250 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.4a

Outputs

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

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GK107

GPU Name

Hawaii

-

GPU Variant

Hawaii PRO (215-0852020)

Kepler

Architecture

GCN 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.27 billion

Transistors

6.2 billion

118 mm²

Die Size

438 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.0

1.1

Vulkan

1.2

3.0

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

6.3

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