AMD Radeon RX 590 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 DDR4
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM Radeon RX 590 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 RX 590 's Advantages
Released 8 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 12% (1545MHz vs 1379MHz)
More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (256.0GB/s vs 16.80GB/s)
1920 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 DDR4 's Advantages
Lower TDP (20W vs 175W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
Radeon RX 590
+572%
7.119 TFLOPS
GeForce GT 1030 DDR4
1.059 TFLOPS
3DMark Time Spy
Radeon RX 590
+648%
4775
GeForce GT 1030 DDR4
638
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
Radeon RX 590
+1112%
2147
GeForce GT 1030 DDR4
177
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p
Radeon RX 590
+1100%
24
GeForce GT 1030 DDR4
2
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p
Radeon RX 590
+557%
46
GeForce GT 1030 DDR4
7
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p
Radeon RX 590
+491%
71
GeForce GT 1030 DDR4
12
Battlefield 5 2160p
Radeon RX 590
+3800%
39
GeForce GT 1030 DDR4
1
Battlefield 5 1440p
Radeon RX 590
+335%
74
GeForce GT 1030 DDR4
17
Battlefield 5 1080p
Radeon RX 590
+359%
101
GeForce GT 1030 DDR4
22
Graphics Card
Nov 2018
Release Date
Mar 2018
Polaris
Generation
GeForce 10
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x4
Clock Speeds
1469 MHz
Base Clock
1152 MHz
1545 MHz
Boost Clock
1379 MHz
2000 MHz
Memory Clock
1050 MHz
Memory
8GB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
DDR4
256bit
Memory Bus
64bit
256.0GB/s
Bandwidth
16.80GB/s
Render Config
36
Compute Units
-
-
SM Count
3
2304
Shading Units
384
144
TMUs
24
32
ROPs
16
-
-
-
-
-
-
16 KB (per CU)
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SM)
2 MB
L2 Cache
512 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
49.44 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
22.06 GPixel/s
222.5 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
33.10 GTexel/s
7.119 TFLOPS
FP16 (half)
16.55 GFLOPS
7.119 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1059 GFLOPS
445.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
33.10 GFLOPS
Board Design
175W
TDP
20W
450 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
1x HDMI 2.0b
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
1x 8-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
Polaris 30
GPU Name
GP108
Polaris 30 XT
(215-0922006)
GPU Variant
GP108-310-A1
GCN 4.0
Architecture
Pascal
GlobalFoundries
Foundry
Samsung
12 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
