NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 vs AMD Radeon HD 7870 XT

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NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 AMD Radeon HD 7870 XT

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GT 1030 and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 7870 XT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 51% (1468MHz vs 975MHz)

Lower TDP (30W vs 185W)

AMD Radeon HD 7870 XT 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.0GB/s vs 48.06GB/s)

1152 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 1030

1.127 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7870 XT +165%

2.995 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 1030

VS

Radeon HD 7870 XT

Graphics Card

May 2017

Release Date

Nov 2012

GeForce 10

Generation

Southern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x4

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1228 MHz

Base Clock

925 MHz

1468 MHz

Boost Clock

975 MHz

1502 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

256bit

48.06GB/s

Bandwidth

192.0GB/s

Render Config

3

SM Count

-

Compute Units

24

384

Shading Units

1536

24

TMUs

96

16

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

23.49 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

31.20 GPixel/s

35.23 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

93.60 GTexel/s

17.62 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

1127 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.995 TFLOPS

35.23 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

748.8 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GP108

GPU Name

Tahiti

GP108-300-A1

GPU Variant

Tahiti LE (215-0821122)

Pascal

Architecture

GCN 1.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.8 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

74 mm²

Die Size

352 mm²

Board Design

30W

TDP

185W

200 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0

Outputs

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

None

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

6.1

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

5.1

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