GeForce GT 1030 DDR4 vs Radeon R7 250X

GeForce GT 1030 DDR4
Memory: 2048Mb DDR4DESKTOP
Release date: 12 Mar 2018
GeForce GT 1030 DDR4
Radeon R7 250X
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 13 Feb 2014
Radeon R7 250X

Summary

Reasons to consider GeForce GT 1030 DDR4

60 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon R7 250X .
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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Pascal), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 R7 250X

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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 1030 DDR4Radeon R7 250X
GPU NameGP108 (GP108-310-A1)vsCape Verde (Cape Verde XT)
Fab Process14 nmvs28 nm
Die Size74 mm²vs123 mm²
Transistors1,800 millionvs1,500 million
Shaders384vs640
Compute Units3vs10
Core clock1152 MHzvs950 MHz
ROPs16vs16
TMUs24vs40

Memory Configuration

GeForce GT 1030 DDR4Radeon R7 250X
Memory TypeDDR4vsGDDR5
Bus Width64 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed1050 MHz
2100 MHz effective
vs1125 MHz
4500 MHz effective
Memory Size2048 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GT 1030 DDR4Radeon R7 250X
TDP20 wattsvs80 watts
Release Date12 Mar 2018vs13 Feb 2014

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GT 1030 DDR4
    22.06 GP/s
  • Radeon R7 250X
    15.20 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GT 1030 DDR4
    33.10 GT/s
  • Radeon R7 250X
    38.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GT 1030 DDR4
    16.80 GB/s
  • Radeon R7 250X
    72.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GT 1030 DDR4
    1059.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon R7 250X
    1216.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better