GeForce GT 1030 vs Radeon RX 550

GeForce GT 1030
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 17 May 2017
GeForce GT 1030
Radeon RX 550
Memory: 4096Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 1 Apr 2017
Radeon RX 550

Summary

Reasons to consider GeForce GT 1030

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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Pascal), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 RX 550

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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Radeon RX 550

HWBench recommends Radeon RX 550

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GT 1030Radeon RX 550
GPU NameGP108 (GP108-300-A1)vsPolaris 12 (Baffin XT)
Fab Process14 nmvs14 nm
Die Size74 mm²vs0 mm²
Transistors1,800 millionvsunknown
Shaders384vs640
Compute Units3vs10
Core clock1228 MHzvs1125 MHz
ROPs16vs16
TMUs24vs40

Memory Configuration

GeForce GT 1030Radeon RX 550
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width64 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed1502 MHz
6008 MHz effective
vs1750 MHz
7000 MHz effective
Memory Size2048 Mbvs4096 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GT 1030Radeon RX 550
TDP30 wattsvs0 watts
Release Date17 May 2017vs1 Apr 2017

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GT 1030
    23.49 GP/s
  • Radeon RX 550
    20.83 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GT 1030
    35.23 GT/s
  • Radeon RX 550
    52.10 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GT 1030
    48.06 GB/s
  • Radeon RX 550
    112.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GT 1030
    1127.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon RX 550
    1666.60 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better