NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 DDR4 vs AMD Radeon R9 290X2
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GT 1030 DDR4 and 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290X2 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 3 years and 9 months late
Boost Clock1379MHz
Lower TDP (20W vs 580W)
AMD Radeon R9 290X2 's Advantages
More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (345.6GB/s vs 16.80GB/s)
2432 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GT 1030 DDR4
1.059 TFLOPS
Radeon R9 290X2
+431%
5.632 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
Mar 2018
Release Date
Jun 2014
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
1350 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
4GB
DDR4
Memory Type
GDDR5
64bit
Memory Bus
512bit
16.80GB/s
Bandwidth
345.6GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
44
3
SM Count
-
384
Shading Units
2816
24
TMUs
176
16
ROPs
64
-
-
-
-
-
-
48 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
512 KB
L2 Cache
1024 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
22.06 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
64.00 GPixel/s
33.10 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
176.0 GTexel/s
16.55 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
1059 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
5.632 TFLOPS
33.10 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
704.0 GFLOPS
Board Design
20W
TDP
580W
200 W
Suggested PSU
950 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
Outputs
2x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
None
Power Connectors
4x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
GP108
GPU Name
Hawaii
GP108-310-A1
GPU Variant
Hawaii XT
(215-0852000)
Pascal
Architecture
GCN 2.0
Samsung
Foundry
TSMC
14 nm
Process Size
28 nm
1.8 billion
Transistors
6.2 billion
74 mm²
Die Size
438 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
12 (12_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
2.0
1.3
Vulkan
1.2
6.1
CUDA
-
6.4
Shader Model
6.3
