AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 DDR4

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AMD Radeon RX Vega 56 NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 DDR4

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX Vega 56 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 Vega 56 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 7% (1471MHz vs 1379MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (409.6GB/s vs 16.80GB/s)

3200 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 DDR4 's Advantages

Released 7 months late

Lower TDP (20W vs 210W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon RX Vega 56 +895%

10.54 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 1030 DDR4

1.059 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon RX Vega 56 +1006%

6873

GeForce GT 1030 DDR4

621

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

Radeon RX Vega 56 +1400%

30

GeForce GT 1030 DDR4

2

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

Radeon RX Vega 56 +714%

57

GeForce GT 1030 DDR4

7

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

Radeon RX Vega 56 +625%

87

GeForce GT 1030 DDR4

12

Battlefield 5 2160p

Radeon RX Vega 56 +5100%

52

GeForce GT 1030 DDR4

1

Battlefield 5 1440p

Radeon RX Vega 56 +447%

93

GeForce GT 1030 DDR4

17

Battlefield 5 1080p

Radeon RX Vega 56 +468%

125

GeForce GT 1030 DDR4

22

Radeon RX Vega 56

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GeForce GT 1030 DDR4

Graphics Card

Aug 2017

Release Date

Mar 2018

Vega

Generation

GeForce 10

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x4

Clock Speeds

1156 MHz

Base Clock

1152 MHz

1471 MHz

Boost Clock

1379 MHz

800 MHz

Memory Clock

1050 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

2GB

HBM2

Memory Type

DDR4

2048bit

Memory Bus

64bit

409.6GB/s

Bandwidth

16.80GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

3

56

Compute Units

-

3584

Shading Units

384

224

TMUs

24

64

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

4 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

94.14 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

22.06 GPixel/s

329.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

33.10 GTexel/s

21.09 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

16.55 GFLOPS

10.54 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1059 GFLOPS

659.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

33.10 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Vega 10

GPU Name

GP108

Vega 10 XL (215-0894216)

GPU Variant

GP108-310-A1

GCN 5.0

Architecture

Pascal

GlobalFoundries

Foundry

Samsung

14 nm

Process Size

14 nm

12.5 billion

Transistors

1.8 billion

495 mm²

Die Size

74 mm²

Board Design

210W

TDP

20W

550 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x HDMI 2.0b 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0

2x 8-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

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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