AMD Radeon R9 270X vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 DDR4
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 270X and 2GB VRAM GeForce GT 1030 DDR4 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 16.80GB/s)
896 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 DDR4 's Advantages
Released 4 years and 5 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 31% (1379MHz vs 1050MHz)
Lower TDP (20W vs 180W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon R9 270X
+153%
2.688 TFLOPS
GeForce GT 1030 DDR4
1.059 TFLOPS
3DMark Time Spy
Radeon R9 270X
+177%
1769
GeForce GT 1030 DDR4
638
Graphics Card
Oct 2013
Release Date
Mar 2018
Volcanic Islands
Generation
GeForce 10
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x4
Clock Speeds
1000 MHz
Base Clock
1152 MHz
1050 MHz
Boost Clock
1379 MHz
1400 MHz
Memory Clock
1050 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
DDR4
256bit
Memory Bus
64bit
179.2GB/s
Bandwidth
16.80GB/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
22.06 GPixel/s
84.00 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
33.10 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
16.55 GFLOPS
2.688 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1059 GFLOPS
168.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
33.10 GFLOPS
Board Design
180W
TDP
20W
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
GP108-310-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
