GeForce GT 1030 DDR4 vs Radeon R9 255 OEM
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GT 1030 DDR4 and 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 255 OEM 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 3 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 48% (1379MHz vs 930MHz)
Lower TDP (20W vs 65W)
Radeon R9 255 OEM 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (73.60GB/s vs 16.80GB/s)
128 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GT 1030 DDR4
+11%
1059
Radeon R9 255 OEM
952
Graphics Card
Mar 2018
Release Date
Dec 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
900 MHz
1379 MHz
Boost Clock
930 MHz
1050 MHz
Memory Clock
1150 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
2GB
DDR4
Memory Type
GDDR5
64bit
Memory Bus
128bit
16.80GB/s
Bandwidth
73.60GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
8
3
SM Count
-
384
Shading Units
512
24
TMUs
32
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
14.88 GPixel/s
33.10 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
29.76 GTexel/s
16.55 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
1059 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
952.3 GFLOPS
33.10 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
59.52 GFLOPS
Board Design
20W
TDP
65W
200 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
Outputs
No outputs
None
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
GP108
GPU Name
Cape Verde
GP108-310-A1
GPU Variant
Cape Verde PRX
Pascal
Architecture
GCN 1.0
Samsung
Foundry
TSMC
14 nm
Process Size
28 nm
1.8 billion
Transistors
1.5 billion
74 mm²
Die Size
123 mm²
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
