GeForce GT 1030 DDR4 vs Radeon HD 5850

GeForce GT 1030 DDR4
Memory: 2048Mb DDR4DESKTOP
Release date: 12 Mar 2018
GeForce GT 1030 DDR4
Radeon HD 5850
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 30 Sep 2009
Radeon HD 5850

Summary

Reasons to consider GeForce GT 1030 DDR4

131 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon HD 5850 .
This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Supports PhysX
Supports G-Sync
Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Pascal), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider Radeon HD 5850

Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

No clear winner declared

We have no data to declare a winner at this time.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GT 1030 DDR4Radeon HD 5850
GPU NameGP108 (GP108-310-A1)vsCypress (Cypress PRO)
Fab Process14 nmvs40 nm
Die Size74 mm²vs334 mm²
Transistors1,800 millionvs2,154 million
Shaders384vs1440
Compute Units3vs18
Core clock1152 MHzvs725 MHz
ROPs16vs32
TMUs24vs72

Memory Configuration

GeForce GT 1030 DDR4Radeon HD 5850
Memory TypeDDR4vsGDDR5
Bus Width64 bitvs256 bit
Memory Speed1050 MHz
2100 MHz effective
vs1000 MHz
4000 MHz effective
Memory Size2048 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GT 1030 DDR4Radeon HD 5850
TDP20 wattsvs151 watts
Release Date12 Mar 2018vs30 Sep 2009

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GT 1030 DDR4
    22.06 GP/s
  • Radeon HD 5850
    23.20 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GT 1030 DDR4
    33.10 GT/s
  • Radeon HD 5850
    52.20 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GT 1030 DDR4
    16.80 GB/s
  • Radeon HD 5850
    128.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GT 1030 DDR4
    1059.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon HD 5850
    2088.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better