NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 vs AMD Radeon RX 480

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NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 AMD Radeon RX 480

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GT 1030 and 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 480 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 's Advantages

Released 11 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 16% (1468MHz vs 1266MHz)

Lower TDP (30W vs 150W)

AMD Radeon RX 480 's Advantages

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.0GB/s vs 48.06GB/s)

1920 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 1030

1.127 TFLOPS

Radeon RX 480 +417%

5.834 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce GT 1030

1083

Radeon RX 480 +284%

4162

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce GT 1030

1

Radeon RX 480 +1600%

17

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce GT 1030

7

Radeon RX 480 +400%

35

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce GT 1030

12

Radeon RX 480 +316%

50

GeForce GT 1030

VS

Radeon RX 480

Graphics Card

May 2017

Release Date

Jun 2016

GeForce 10

Generation

Arctic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x4

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1228 MHz

Base Clock

1120 MHz

1468 MHz

Boost Clock

1266 MHz

1502 MHz

Memory Clock

2000 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

8GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

256bit

48.06GB/s

Bandwidth

256.0GB/s

Render Config

3

SM Count

-

Compute Units

36

384

Shading Units

2304

24

TMUs

144

16

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

23.49 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

40.51 GPixel/s

35.23 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

182.3 GTexel/s

17.62 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

5.834 TFLOPS

1127 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

5.834 TFLOPS

35.23 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

364.6 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GP108

GPU Name

Ellesmere

GP108-300-A1

GPU Variant

Polaris 10 XT (215-0876184)

Pascal

Architecture

GCN 4.0

Samsung

Foundry

GlobalFoundries

14 nm

Process Size

14 nm

1.8 billion

Transistors

5.7 billion

74 mm²

Die Size

232 mm²

Board Design

30W

TDP

150W

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 6-pin

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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