Radeon RX 470 vs GeForce GT 1030 DDR4
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon RX 470 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 RX 470 's Advantages
More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (211.2GB/s vs 16.80GB/s)
1664 additional rendering cores
GeForce GT 1030 DDR4 's Advantages
Released 1 years and 7 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 14% (1379MHz vs 1206MHz)
Lower TDP (20W vs 120W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon RX 470
+366%
4940
GeForce GT 1030 DDR4
1059
3DMark Time Spy
Radeon RX 470
+476%
3679
GeForce GT 1030 DDR4
638
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
Radeon RX 470
+861%
1701
GeForce GT 1030 DDR4
177
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p
Radeon RX 470
+500%
12
GeForce GT 1030 DDR4
2
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p
Radeon RX 470
+257%
25
GeForce GT 1030 DDR4
7
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p
Radeon RX 470
+233%
40
GeForce GT 1030 DDR4
12
Graphics Card
Aug 2016
Release Date
Mar 2018
Arctic Islands
Generation
GeForce 10
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x4
Clock Speeds
926 MHz
Base Clock
1152 MHz
1206 MHz
Boost Clock
1379 MHz
1650 MHz
Memory Clock
1050 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
DDR4
256bit
Memory Bus
64bit
211.2GB/s
Bandwidth
16.80GB/s
Render Config
32
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
3
2048
Shading Units
384
128
TMUs
24
32
ROPs
16
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SM)
2 MB
L2 Cache
512 KB
Theoretical Performance
38.59 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
22.06 GPixel/s
154.4 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
33.10 GTexel/s
4.940 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
16.55 GFLOPS
4.940 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1059 GFLOPS
308.7 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
33.10 GFLOPS
Board Design
120W
TDP
20W
300 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
1x HDMI 2.0b
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
Ellesmere
GPU Name
GP108
Polaris 10 PRO
(215-0876204)
GPU Variant
GP108-310-A1
GCN 4.0
Architecture
Pascal
GlobalFoundries
Foundry
Samsung
14 nm
Process Size
14 nm
5.7 billion
Transistors
1.8 billion
232 mm²
Die Size
74 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_0)
DirectX
12 (12_1)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
2.1
OpenCL
3.0
1.2
Vulkan
1.3
-
CUDA
6.1
6.4
Shader Model
6.4
