AMD Radeon RX 580 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 DDR4

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AMD Radeon RX 580 NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 DDR4

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 580 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 RX 580 's Advantages

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.0GB/s vs 16.80GB/s)

1920 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 DDR4 's Advantages

Released 11 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 3% (1379MHz vs 1340MHz)

Lower TDP (20W vs 185W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX 580 +483%

6.175 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 1030 DDR4

1.059 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon RX 580 +601%

4359

GeForce GT 1030 DDR4

621

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

Radeon RX 580 +750%

17

GeForce GT 1030 DDR4

2

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

Radeon RX 580 +400%

35

GeForce GT 1030 DDR4

7

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

Radeon RX 580 +316%

50

GeForce GT 1030 DDR4

12

Battlefield 5 2160p

Radeon RX 580 +2600%

27

GeForce GT 1030 DDR4

1

Battlefield 5 1440p

Radeon RX 580 +217%

54

GeForce GT 1030 DDR4

17

Battlefield 5 1080p

Radeon RX 580 +254%

78

GeForce GT 1030 DDR4

22

Radeon RX 580

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GeForce GT 1030 DDR4

Graphics Card

Apr 2017

Release Date

Mar 2018

Polaris

Generation

GeForce 10

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x4

Clock Speeds

1257 MHz

Base Clock

1152 MHz

1340 MHz

Boost Clock

1379 MHz

2000 MHz

Memory Clock

1050 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR4

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

256.0GB/s

Bandwidth

16.80GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

3

36

Compute Units

-

2304

Shading Units

384

144

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

42.88 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

22.06 GPixel/s

193.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

33.10 GTexel/s

6.175 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

16.55 GFLOPS

6.175 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1059 GFLOPS

385.9 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

33.10 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Polaris 20

GPU Name

GP108

Polaris 20 XTX (215-0910038)

GPU Variant

GP108-310-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

185W

TDP

20W

450 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0

1x 8-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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