GeForce GT 1030 DDR4 vs Radeon HD 2900 XT
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GT 1030 DDR4 and 512MB VRAM Radeon HD 2900 XT to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce GT 1030 DDR4 's Advantages
Released 10 years and 10 months late
Boost Clock1379MHz
More VRAM (2GB vs 512GB)
64 additional rendering cores
Lower TDP (20W vs 215W)
Radeon HD 2900 XT 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (106.0GB/s vs 16.80GB/s)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GT 1030 DDR4
+122%
1059
Radeon HD 2900 XT
476
Graphics Card
Mar 2018
Release Date
May 2007
GeForce 10
Generation
Radeon R600
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x4
Bus Interface
PCIe 1.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1152 MHz
Base Clock
-
1379 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1050 MHz
Memory Clock
828 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
512MB
DDR4
Memory Type
GDDR3
64bit
Memory Bus
512bit
16.80GB/s
Bandwidth
106.0GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
4
3
SM Count
-
384
Shading Units
320
24
TMUs
16
16
ROPs
16
48 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
-
512 KB
L2 Cache
256 KB
Theoretical Performance
22.06 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
11.89 GPixel/s
33.10 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
11.89 GTexel/s
16.55 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
1059 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
475.5 GFLOPS
33.10 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
-
Board Design
20W
TDP
215W
200 W
Suggested PSU
550 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
Outputs
2x DVI
1x S-Video
None
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
GP108
GPU Name
R600
GP108-310-A1
GPU Variant
R600 XT
(215RGMDKA13FG)
Pascal
Architecture
TeraScale
Samsung
Foundry
TSMC
14 nm
Process Size
80 nm
1.8 billion
Transistors
0.72 billion
74 mm²
Die Size
420 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
10.0 (10_0)
4.6
OpenGL
3.3 (full)
4.0 (partial)
3.0
OpenCL
N/A
1.3
Vulkan
N/A
6.1
CUDA
-
6.4
Shader Model
4.0