NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 DDR4 vs AMD Radeon R7 250
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GT 1030 DDR4 and 1024MB VRAM Radeon R7 250 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 DDR4 's Advantages
Released 4 years and 5 months late
Boost Clock1379MHz
More VRAM (2GB vs 1024GB)
Lower TDP (20W vs 55W)
AMD Radeon R7 250 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (28.80GB/s vs 16.80GB/s)
128 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GT 1030 DDR4
+47%
1.059 TFLOPS
Radeon R7 250
0.717 TFLOPS
3DMark Time Spy
GeForce GT 1030 DDR4
+13%
638
Radeon R7 250
561
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
900 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
1024MB
DDR4
Memory Type
DDR3
64bit
Memory Bus
128bit
16.80GB/s
Bandwidth
28.80GB/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
11.20 GPixel/s
33.10 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
22.40 GTexel/s
16.55 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
1059 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
716.8 GFLOPS
33.10 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
44.80 GFLOPS
Board Design
20W
TDP
55W
200 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
None
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GP108
GPU Name
Cape Verde
GP108-310-A1
GPU Variant
Cape Verde PRO
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
