AMD Radeon R9 280X vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280X 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 280X 's Advantages
More VRAM (3GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 48.06GB/s)
1664 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 's Advantages
Released 3 years and 7 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 47% (1468MHz vs 1000MHz)
Lower TDP (30W vs 250W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon R9 280X
+263%
4.096 TFLOPS
GeForce GT 1030
1.127 TFLOPS
3DMark Time Spy
Radeon R9 280X
+116%
2348
GeForce GT 1030
1087
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
850 MHz
Base Clock
1228 MHz
1000 MHz
Boost Clock
1468 MHz
1500 MHz
Memory Clock
1502 MHz
Memory
3GB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
384bit
Memory Bus
64bit
288.0GB/s
Bandwidth
48.06GB/s
Render Config
32
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
3
2048
Shading Units
384
128
TMUs
24
32
ROPs
16
-
-
-
-
-
-
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SM)
768 KB
L2 Cache
512 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
32.00 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
23.49 GPixel/s
128.0 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
35.23 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
17.62 GFLOPS
4.096 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1127 GFLOPS
1024 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
35.23 GFLOPS
Board Design
250W
TDP
30W
600 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
2x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
Tahiti
GPU Name
GP108
Tahiti XTL
(215-0821065)
GPU Variant
GP108-300-A1
GCN 1.0
Architecture
Pascal
TSMC
Foundry
Samsung
28 nm
Process Size
14 nm
4.313 billion
Transistors
1.8 billion
352 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
