AMD Radeon R9 270X vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030

VS

AMD Radeon R9 270X

NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 270X and 2GB VRAM GeForce GT 1030 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 270X 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (179.2GB/s vs 48.06GB/s)

896 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 40% (1468MHz vs 1050MHz)

Lower TDP (30W vs 180W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 270X +138%

2.688 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 1030

1.127 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon R9 270X +63%

1769

GeForce GT 1030

1083

Radeon R9 270X

VS

GeForce GT 1030

Graphics Card

Oct 2013

Release Date

May 2017

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 10

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x4

Clock Speeds

1000 MHz

Base Clock

1228 MHz

1050 MHz

Boost Clock

1468 MHz

1400 MHz

Memory Clock

1502 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

179.2GB/s

Bandwidth

48.06GB/s

Render Config

20

Compute Units

-

SM Count

3

1280

Shading Units

384

80

TMUs

24

32

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

33.60 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

23.49 GPixel/s

84.00 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

35.23 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

17.62 GFLOPS

2.688 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1127 GFLOPS

168.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

35.23 GFLOPS

Board Design

180W

TDP

30W

450 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

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

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

Curacao

GPU Name

GP108

Curacao XT (215-0848004)

GPU Variant

GP108-300-A1

GCN 1.0

Architecture

Pascal

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

28 nm

Process Size

14 nm

2.8 billion

Transistors

1.8 billion

212 mm²

Die Size

74 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_1)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

1.2

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

6.1

5.1

Shader Model

6.4

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