GeForce GT 1030 DDR4 vs Radeon HD 5870

GeForce GT 1030 DDR4
Memory: 2048Mb DDR4DESKTOP
Release date: 12 Mar 2018
GeForce GT 1030 DDR4
Radeon HD 5870
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 23 Sep 2009
Radeon HD 5870

Summary

Reasons to consider GeForce GT 1030 DDR4

168 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon HD 5870 .
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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Pascal), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 5870

Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 5870
GPU NameGP108 (GP108-310-A1)vsCypress (Cypress XT)
Fab Process14 nmvs40 nm
Die Size74 mm²vs334 mm²
Transistors1,800 millionvs2,154 million
Shaders384vs1600
Compute Units3vs20
Core clock1152 MHzvs850 MHz
ROPs16vs32
TMUs24vs80

Memory Configuration

GeForce GT 1030 DDR4Radeon HD 5870
Memory TypeDDR4vsGDDR5
Bus Width64 bitvs256 bit
Memory Speed1050 MHz
2100 MHz effective
vs1200 MHz
4800 MHz effective
Memory Size2048 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GT 1030 DDR4Radeon HD 5870
TDP20 wattsvs188 watts
Release Date12 Mar 2018vs23 Sep 2009

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GT 1030 DDR4
    22.06 GP/s
  • Radeon HD 5870
    27.20 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GT 1030 DDR4
    33.10 GT/s
  • Radeon HD 5870
    68.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GT 1030 DDR4
    16.80 GB/s
  • Radeon HD 5870
    154.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GT 1030 DDR4
    1059.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon HD 5870
    2720.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better