NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 vs AMD Radeon R9 290X2

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030

AMD Radeon R9 290X2

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GT 1030 and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290X2 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 11 months late

Boost Clock1468MHz

Lower TDP (30W vs 580W)

AMD Radeon R9 290X2 's Advantages

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (345.6GB/s vs 48.06GB/s)

2432 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 1030

1.127 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290X2 +399%

5.632 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 1030

VS

Radeon R9 290X2

Graphics Card

May 2017

Release Date

Jun 2014

GeForce 10

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x4

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1228 MHz

Base Clock

-

1468 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1502 MHz

Memory Clock

1350 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

512bit

48.06GB/s

Bandwidth

345.6GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

44

3

SM Count

-

384

Shading Units

2816

24

TMUs

176

16

ROPs

64

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

23.49 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

64.00 GPixel/s

35.23 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

176.0 GTexel/s

17.62 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

1127 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.632 TFLOPS

35.23 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

704.0 GFLOPS

Board Design

30W

TDP

580W

200 W

Suggested PSU

950 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0

Outputs

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

None

Power Connectors

4x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GP108

GPU Name

Hawaii

GP108-300-A1

GPU Variant

Hawaii XT (215-0852000)

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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