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GeForce GT 1030 DDR4 vs Radeon R7 260X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GT 1030 DDR4 and 2GB VRAM Radeon R7 260X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

GeForce GT 1030 DDR4 's Advantages
Released 4 years and 5 months late
Boost Clock1379MHz
Lower TDP (20W vs 115W)
Radeon R7 260X 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (104.0GB/s vs 16.80GB/s)
512 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)
GeForce GT 1030 DDR4
1059
Radeon R7 260X +86%
1971
3DMark Time Spy
GeForce GT 1030 DDR4
638
Radeon R7 260X +131%
1476

Graphics Card

Mar 2018
Release Date
Oct 2013
GeForce 10
Generation
Volcanic Islands
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x4
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1152 MHz
Base Clock
-
1379 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1050 MHz
Memory Clock
1625 MHz

Memory

2GB
Memory Size
2GB
DDR4
Memory Type
GDDR5
64bit
Memory Bus
128bit
16.80GB/s
Bandwidth
104.0GB/s

Render Config

-
Compute Units
14
3
SM Count
-
384
Shading Units
896
24
TMUs
56
16
ROPs
16
48 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
512 KB
L2 Cache
256 KB

Theoretical Performance

22.06 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
17.60 GPixel/s
33.10 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
61.60 GTexel/s
16.55 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
1059 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1.971 TFLOPS
33.10 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
123.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

20W
TDP
115W
200 W
Suggested PSU
300 W
1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0
Outputs
2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 1x DisplayPort 1.2
None
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GP108
GPU Name
Bonaire
GP108-310-A1
GPU Variant
Bonaire XTX (215-0839097)
Pascal
Architecture
GCN 2.0
Samsung
Foundry
TSMC
14 nm
Process Size
28 nm
1.8 billion
Transistors
2.08 billion
74 mm²
Die Size
160 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)
DirectX
12 (12_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
2.0
1.3
Vulkan
1.2
6.1
CUDA
-
6.4
Shader Model
6.3
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