NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 vs AMD Radeon R9 280X

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 AMD Radeon R9 280X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GT 1030 and 3GB VRAM Radeon R9 280X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 47% (1468MHz vs 1000MHz)

Lower TDP (30W vs 250W)

AMD Radeon R9 280X 's Advantages

More VRAM (3GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 48.06GB/s)

1664 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 1030

1.127 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 280X +263%

4.096 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce GT 1030

1083

Radeon R9 280X +116%

2343

GeForce GT 1030

VS

Radeon R9 280X

Graphics Card

May 2017

Release Date

Oct 2013

GeForce 10

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x4

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1228 MHz

Base Clock

850 MHz

1468 MHz

Boost Clock

1000 MHz

1502 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

384bit

48.06GB/s

Bandwidth

288.0GB/s

Render Config

3

SM Count

-

Compute Units

32

384

Shading Units

2048

24

TMUs

128

16

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

Theoretical Performance

23.49 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

32.00 GPixel/s

35.23 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

128.0 GTexel/s

17.62 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

1127 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

4.096 TFLOPS

35.23 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

1024 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GP108

GPU Name

Tahiti

GP108-300-A1

GPU Variant

Tahiti XTL (215-0821065)

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

250W

200 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0

Outputs

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

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-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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