GeForce GT 1030 DDR4 vs Radeon R9 270 1024SP
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GT 1030 DDR4 and 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 270 1024SP to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce GT 1030 DDR4 's Advantages
Released 3 years late
Boost Clock has increased by 49% (1379MHz vs 925MHz)
Lower TDP (20W vs 150W)
Radeon R9 270 1024SP 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (153.6GB/s vs 16.80GB/s)
640 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GT 1030 DDR4
1059
Radeon R9 270 1024SP
+78%
1894
Graphics Card
Mar 2018
Release Date
Mar 2015
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
925 MHz
1050 MHz
Memory Clock
1200 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
2GB
DDR4
Memory Type
GDDR5
64bit
Memory Bus
256bit
16.80GB/s
Bandwidth
153.6GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
16
3
SM Count
-
384
Shading Units
1024
24
TMUs
64
16
ROPs
32
48 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
512 KB
L2 Cache
512 KB
Theoretical Performance
22.06 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
29.60 GPixel/s
33.10 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
59.20 GTexel/s
16.55 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
1059 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1.894 TFLOPS
33.10 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
118.4 GFLOPS
Board Design
20W
TDP
150W
200 W
Suggested PSU
450 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
Pitcairn
GP108-310-A1
GPU Variant
Pitcairn PRO
(215-0828062)
Pascal
Architecture
GCN 1.0
Samsung
Foundry
TSMC
14 nm
Process Size
28 nm
1.8 billion
Transistors
2.8 billion
74 mm²
Die Size
212 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