AMD Radeon R9 285 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 DDR4

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AMD Radeon R9 285

NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 DDR4

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 285 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 285 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (176.0GB/s vs 16.80GB/s)

1408 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 DDR4 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock1379MHz

Lower TDP (20W vs 190W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 285 +210%

3.29 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 1030 DDR4

1.059 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 285

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GeForce GT 1030 DDR4

Graphics Card

Sep 2014

Release Date

Mar 2018

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 10

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x4

Clock Speeds

-

Base Clock

1152 MHz

-

Boost Clock

1379 MHz

1375 MHz

Memory Clock

1050 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR4

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

176.0GB/s

Bandwidth

16.80GB/s

Render Config

28

Compute Units

-

SM Count

3

1792

Shading Units

384

112

TMUs

24

32

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

29.38 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

22.06 GPixel/s

102.8 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

33.10 GTexel/s

3.290 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

16.55 GFLOPS

3.290 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1059 GFLOPS

205.6 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

33.10 GFLOPS

Board Design

190W

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

Tonga

GPU Name

GP108

Tonga PRO (215-0851128)

GPU Variant

GP108-310-A1

GCN 3.0

Architecture

Pascal

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

28 nm

Process Size

14 nm

5 billion

Transistors

1.8 billion

366 mm²

Die Size

74 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

3.0

1.2.170

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

6.1

6.5

Shader Model

6.4

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