GeForce GT 1030 DDR4 vs Radeon Vega 8

GeForce GT 1030 DDR4
Memory: 2048Mb DDR4DESKTOP
Release date: 12 Mar 2018
GeForce GT 1030 DDR4
Radeon Vega 8
Memory: 0Mb System SharedDESKTOP
Release date: 13 Feb 2018
Radeon Vega 8

Summary

Reasons to consider GeForce GT 1030 DDR4

45 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon Vega 8 .
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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Pascal), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 Vega 8

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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 Vega 8

HWBench recommends Radeon Vega 8

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GT 1030 DDR4Radeon Vega 8
GPU NameGP108 (GP108-310-A1)vsRaven Ridge ()
Fab Process14 nmvs14 nm
Die Size74 mm²vs210 mm²
Transistors1,800 millionvs4,940 million
Shaders384vs512
Compute Units3vs8
Core clock1152 MHzvs300 MHz
ROPs16vs16
TMUs24vs32

Memory Configuration

GeForce GT 1030 DDR4Radeon Vega 8
Memory TypeDDR4vsSystem Shared
Bus Width64 bitvsSystem Shared
Memory Speed1050 MHz
2100 MHz effective
vsSystem Shared
Memory Size2048 Mbvs0 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GT 1030 DDR4Radeon Vega 8
TDP20 wattsvs65 watts
Release Date12 Mar 2018vs13 Feb 2018

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GT 1030 DDR4
    22.06 GP/s
  • Radeon Vega 8
    17.60 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GT 1030 DDR4
    33.10 GT/s
  • Radeon Vega 8
    35.20 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GT 1030 DDR4
    16.80 GB/s
  • Radeon Vega 8
    0.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GT 1030 DDR4
    1059.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon Vega 8
    1126.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better