Radeon R9 290X vs GeForce GT 1030 DDR4
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290X and 2GB VRAM GeForce GT 1030 DDR4 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
Radeon R9 290X 's Advantages
More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 16.80GB/s)
2432 additional rendering cores
GeForce GT 1030 DDR4 's Advantages
Released 4 years and 5 months late
Boost Clock1379MHz
Lower TDP (20W vs 290W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon R9 290X
+431%
5632
GeForce GT 1030 DDR4
1059
Graphics Card
Oct 2013
Release Date
Mar 2018
Volcanic Islands
Generation
GeForce 10
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x4
Clock Speeds
-
Base Clock
1152 MHz
-
Boost Clock
1379 MHz
1250 MHz
Memory Clock
1050 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
DDR4
512bit
Memory Bus
64bit
320.0GB/s
Bandwidth
16.80GB/s
Render Config
44
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
3
2816
Shading Units
384
176
TMUs
24
64
ROPs
16
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SM)
1024 KB
L2 Cache
512 KB
Theoretical Performance
64.00 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
22.06 GPixel/s
176.0 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
33.10 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
16.55 GFLOPS
5.632 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1059 GFLOPS
704.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
33.10 GFLOPS
Board Design
290W
TDP
20W
600 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
2x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
Hawaii
GPU Name
GP108
Hawaii XT
(215-0852000)
GPU Variant
GP108-310-A1
GCN 2.0
Architecture
Pascal
TSMC
Foundry
Samsung
28 nm
Process Size
14 nm
6.2 billion
Transistors
1.8 billion
438 mm²
Die Size
74 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_0)
DirectX
12 (12_1)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
2.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.2
Vulkan
1.3
-
CUDA
6.1
6.3
Shader Model
6.4