NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 vs ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030

ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GT 1030 and 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 2900 XT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 's Advantages

Released 10 years late

Boost Clock1468MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)

64 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (30W vs 215W)

ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (106.0GB/s vs 48.06GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 1030 +136%

1.127 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 2900 XT

0.476 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 1030

VS

Radeon HD 2900 XT

Graphics Card

May 2017

Release Date

May 2007

GeForce 10

Generation

Radeon R600

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x4

Bus Interface

PCIe 1.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1228 MHz

Base Clock

-

1468 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1502 MHz

Memory Clock

828 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

512MB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR3

64bit

Memory Bus

512bit

48.06GB/s

Bandwidth

106.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

4

3

SM Count

-

384

Shading Units

320

24

TMUs

16

ROPs

16

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

23.49 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

11.89 GPixel/s

35.23 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

11.89 GTexel/s

17.62 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

1127 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

475.5 GFLOPS

35.23 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

-

Board Design

30W

TDP

215W

200 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GP108

GPU Name

R600

GP108-300-A1

GPU Variant

R600 XT (215RGMDKA13FG)

Pascal

Architecture

TeraScale

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

80 nm

1.8 billion

Transistors

0.72 billion

74 mm²

Die Size

420 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

10.0 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3 (full) 4.0 (partial)

3.0

OpenCL

N/A

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

6.1

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

4.0

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