GeForce GT 1030 vs Radeon R9 270 1024SP

GeForce GT 1030
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 17 May 2017
GeForce GT 1030
Radeon R9 270 1024SP
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 13 Mar 2015
Radeon R9 270 1024SP
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Summary

Reasons to consider GeForce GT 1030

120 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon R9 270 1024SP .
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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Pascal), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 270 1024SP

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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

No clear winner declared

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


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GT 1030Radeon R9 270 1024SP
GPU NameGP108 (GP108-300-A1)vsPitcairn (Pitcairn PRO)
Fab Process14 nmvs28 nm
Die Size74 mm²vs212 mm²
Transistors1,800 millionvs2,800 million
Shaders384vs1024
Compute Units3vs16
Core clock1228 MHzvs900 MHz
ROPs16vs32
TMUs24vs64

Memory Configuration

GeForce GT 1030Radeon R9 270 1024SP
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width64 bitvs256 bit
Memory Speed1502 MHz
6008 MHz effective
vs1200 MHz
4800 MHz effective
Memory Size2048 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GT 1030Radeon R9 270 1024SP
TDP30 wattsvs150 watts
Release Date17 May 2017vs13 Mar 2015

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GT 1030
    23.49 GP/s
  • Radeon R9 270 1024SP
    29.60 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GT 1030
    35.23 GT/s
  • Radeon R9 270 1024SP
    59.20 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GT 1030
    48.06 GB/s
  • Radeon R9 270 1024SP
    153.60 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GT 1030
    1127.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon R9 270 1024SP
    1894.40 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better