AMD Radeon RX 470 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030

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AMD Radeon RX 470 NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 470 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 RX 470 's Advantages

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (211.2GB/s vs 48.06GB/s)

1664 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 's Advantages

Released 9 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 22% (1468MHz vs 1206MHz)

Lower TDP (30W vs 120W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 470 +338%

4.94 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 1030

1.127 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon RX 470 +240%

3685

GeForce GT 1030

1083

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

Radeon RX 470 +1100%

12

GeForce GT 1030

1

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

Radeon RX 470 +257%

25

GeForce GT 1030

7

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

Radeon RX 470 +233%

40

GeForce GT 1030

12

Radeon RX 470

VS

GeForce GT 1030

Graphics Card

Aug 2016

Release Date

May 2017

Arctic Islands

Generation

GeForce 10

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x4

Clock Speeds

926 MHz

Base Clock

1228 MHz

1206 MHz

Boost Clock

1468 MHz

1650 MHz

Memory Clock

1502 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

211.2GB/s

Bandwidth

48.06GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

3

32

Compute Units

-

2048

Shading Units

384

128

TMUs

24

32

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

38.59 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

23.49 GPixel/s

154.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

35.23 GTexel/s

4.940 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

17.62 GFLOPS

4.940 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1127 GFLOPS

308.7 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

35.23 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Ellesmere

GPU Name

GP108

Polaris 10 PRO (215-0876204)

GPU Variant

GP108-300-A1

GCN 4.0

Architecture

Pascal

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

Samsung

14 nm

Process Size

14 nm

5.7 billion

Transistors

1.8 billion

232 mm²

Die Size

74 mm²

Board Design

120W

TDP

30W

300 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.1

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

-

CUDA

6.1

6.4

Shader Model

6.4

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