AMD Radeon R9 290X vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 GK107

VS

AMD Radeon R9 290X

NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 GK107

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290X and 2GB VRAM GeForce GT 1030 GK107 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 290X 's Advantages

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 80.00GB/s)

2432 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 GK107 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 11 months late

Lower TDP (65W vs 290W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 290X +593%

5.632 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 1030 GK107

0.812 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 290X

VS

GeForce GT 1030 GK107

Graphics Card

Oct 2013

Release Date

Sep 2018

Volcanic Islands

Generation

GeForce 10

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

512bit

Memory Bus

128bit

320.0GB/s

Bandwidth

80.00GB/s

Render Config

44

Compute Units

-

2816

Shading Units

384

176

TMUs

32

64

ROPs

16

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

64.00 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

8.464 GPixel/s

176.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

33.86 GTexel/s

-

5.632 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

812.5 GFLOPS

704.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

33.86 GFLOPS

Board Design

290W

TDP

65W

600 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.4a

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

Hawaii

GPU Name

GK107

Hawaii XT (215-0852000)

GPU Variant

-

GCN 2.0

Architecture

Kepler

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

6.2 billion

Transistors

1.27 billion

438 mm²

Die Size

118 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.1

-

CUDA

3.0

6.3

Shader Model

5.1

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