GeForce GT 1030 DDR4 vs Radeon R9 380

GeForce GT 1030 DDR4
Memory: 2048Mb DDR4DESKTOP
Release date: 12 Mar 2018
GeForce GT 1030 DDR4
Radeon R9 380
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 18 Jun 2015
Radeon R9 380

Summary

Reasons to consider GeForce GT 1030 DDR4

170 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon R9 380 .
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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Pascal), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 380

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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 R9 380

HWBench recommends Radeon R9 380

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GT 1030 DDR4Radeon R9 380
GPU NameGP108 (GP108-310-A1)vsAntigua (Antigua PRO)
Fab Process14 nmvs28 nm
Die Size74 mm²vs366 mm²
Transistors1,800 millionvs5,000 million
Shaders384vs1792
Compute Units3vs28
Core clock1152 MHzvs970 MHz
ROPs16vs32
TMUs24vs112

Memory Configuration

GeForce GT 1030 DDR4Radeon R9 380
Memory TypeDDR4vsGDDR5
Bus Width64 bitvs256 bit
Memory Speed1050 MHz
2100 MHz effective
vs1375 MHz
5500 MHz effective
Memory Size2048 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GT 1030 DDR4Radeon R9 380
TDP20 wattsvs190 watts
Release Date12 Mar 2018vs18 Jun 2015

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GT 1030 DDR4
    22.06 GP/s
  • Radeon R9 380
    31.04 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GT 1030 DDR4
    33.10 GT/s
  • Radeon R9 380
    108.60 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GT 1030 DDR4
    16.80 GB/s
  • Radeon R9 380
    176.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GT 1030 DDR4
    1059.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon R9 380
    3476.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better