NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 vs AMD Radeon 540

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We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GT 1030 and 1024MB VRAM AMD Radeon 540 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 's Advantages

Boost Clock1468MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (48.06GB/s vs 24.00GB/s)

Lower TDP (30W vs 50W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 1030 +24%

1.127 TFLOPS

AMD Radeon 540

0.908 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 1030

VS

AMD Radeon 540

Graphics Card

May 2017

Release Date

Apr 2017

GeForce 10

Generation

Polaris

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x4

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1228 MHz

Base Clock

-

1468 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1502 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1024MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

32bit

48.06GB/s

Bandwidth

24.00GB/s

Render Config

3

SM Count

-

Compute Units

6

384

Shading Units

384

24

TMUs

24

16

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

23.49 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

18.93 GPixel/s

35.23 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

28.39 GTexel/s

17.62 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

908.5 GFLOPS

1127 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

908.5 GFLOPS

35.23 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

56.78 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GP108

GPU Name

Lexa

GP108-300-A1

GPU Variant

Lexa PRO (215-0904018)

Pascal

Architecture

GCN 4.0

Samsung

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

14 nm

Process Size

14 nm

1.8 billion

Transistors

2.2 billion

74 mm²

Die Size

103 mm²

Board Design

30W

TDP

50W

200 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0

Outputs

2x DisplayPort 1.4a

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (12_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

2.1

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

6.1

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

6.7

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