GeForce GT 1030 DDR4 vs Radeon R9 370

GeForce GT 1030 DDR4
Memory: 2048Mb DDR4DESKTOP
Release date: 12 Mar 2018
GeForce GT 1030 DDR4
Radeon R9 370
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 5 May 2015
Radeon R9 370

Summary

Reasons to consider GeForce GT 1030 DDR4

90 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon R9 370 .
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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Pascal), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 R9 370

Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications.
Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Supports Mantle
Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Radeon R9 370

HWBench recommends Radeon R9 370

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GT 1030 DDR4Radeon R9 370
GPU NameGP108 (GP108-310-A1)vsTrinidad (Trinidad PRO)
Fab Process14 nmvs28 nm
Die Size74 mm²vs212 mm²
Transistors1,800 millionvs2,800 million
Shaders384vs1280
Compute Units3vs24
Core clock1152 MHzvs925 MHz
ROPs16vs32
TMUs24vs80

Memory Configuration

GeForce GT 1030 DDR4Radeon R9 370
Memory TypeDDR4vsGDDR5
Bus Width64 bitvs256 bit
Memory Speed1050 MHz
2100 MHz effective
vs1400 MHz
5600 MHz effective
Memory Size2048 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GT 1030 DDR4Radeon R9 370
TDP20 wattsvs110 watts
Release Date12 Mar 2018vs5 May 2015

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GT 1030 DDR4
    22.06 GP/s
  • Radeon R9 370
    31.20 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GT 1030 DDR4
    33.10 GT/s
  • Radeon R9 370
    78.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GT 1030 DDR4
    16.80 GB/s
  • Radeon R9 370
    179.20 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GT 1030 DDR4
    1059.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon R9 370
    2496.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better