GeForce GT 1030 DDR4 vs Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6

GeForce GT 1030 DDR4
Memory: 2048Mb DDR4DESKTOP
Release date: 12 Mar 2018
GeForce GT 1030 DDR4
Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 11 Mar 2010
Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6
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Summary

Reasons to consider GeForce GT 1030 DDR4

208 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6 .
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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Pascal), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 Eyefinity 6

Based on an outdated architecture (ATI TeraScale), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 Eyefinity 6
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 Eyefinity 6
Memory TypeDDR4vsGDDR5
Bus Width64 bitvs256 bit
Memory Speed1050 MHz
2100 MHz effective
vs1200 MHz
4800 MHz effective
Memory Size2048 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GT 1030 DDR4Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6
TDP20 wattsvs228 watts
Release Date12 Mar 2018vs11 Mar 2010

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GT 1030 DDR4
    22.06 GP/s
  • Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6
    27.20 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GT 1030 DDR4
    33.10 GT/s
  • Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6
    68.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GT 1030 DDR4
    16.80 GB/s
  • Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6
    154.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GT 1030 DDR4
    1059.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6
    2720.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better