NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 vs AMD Radeon R9 270X

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NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 AMD Radeon R9 270X

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GT 1030 and 2GB VRAM Radeon R9 270X to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 7 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 40% (1468MHz vs 1050MHz)

Lower TDP (30W vs 180W)

AMD Radeon R9 270X 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (179.2GB/s vs 48.06GB/s)

896 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 1030

1.127 TFLOPS

Radeon R9 270X +138%

2.688 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce GT 1030

1083

Radeon R9 270X +63%

1770

GeForce GT 1030

VS

Radeon R9 270X

Graphics Card

May 2017

Release Date

Oct 2013

GeForce 10

Generation

Volcanic Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x4

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1228 MHz

Base Clock

1000 MHz

1468 MHz

Boost Clock

1050 MHz

1502 MHz

Memory Clock

1400 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

256bit

48.06GB/s

Bandwidth

179.2GB/s

Render Config

3

SM Count

-

Compute Units

20

384

Shading Units

1280

24

TMUs

80

16

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

23.49 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

33.60 GPixel/s

35.23 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

84.00 GTexel/s

17.62 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

1127 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.688 TFLOPS

35.23 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

168.0 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GP108

GPU Name

Curacao

GP108-300-A1

GPU Variant

Curacao XT (215-0848004)

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

Board Design

30W

TDP

180W

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

2x 6-pin

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

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