AMD Radeon R9 290 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 DDR4

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AMD Radeon R9 290 NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 DDR4

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM Radeon R9 290 and 2GB VRAM GeForce GT 1030 DDR4 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

AMD Radeon R9 290 's Advantages

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (320.0GB/s vs 16.80GB/s)

2176 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 DDR4 's Advantages

Released 4 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock1379MHz

Lower TDP (20W vs 275W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

Radeon R9 290 +357%

4.849 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 1030 DDR4

1.059 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

Radeon R9 290 +493%

3681

GeForce GT 1030 DDR4

620

Radeon R9 290

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GeForce GT 1030 DDR4

Graphics Card

Nov 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

-

SM Count

3

40

Compute Units

-

2560

Shading Units

384

160

TMUs

24

64

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

16 KB (per CU)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

60.61 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

22.06 GPixel/s

151.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

33.10 GTexel/s

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FP16 (half)

16.55 GFLOPS

4.849 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1059 GFLOPS

606.1 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

33.10 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

Hawaii

GPU Name

GP108

Hawaii PRO (215-0852020)

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

Board Design

275W

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 Features

12 (12_0)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

2.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.2

Vulkan

1.3

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CUDA

6.1

6.3

Shader Model

6.4

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