GeForce GT 1030 vs Radeon R7 250X
Summary
Reasons to consider GeForce GT 1030 |
| 50 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. |
| Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications. |
| 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| Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Pascal), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications |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| Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
HWBench recommends GeForce GT 1030
Based on theoretical specifications.
Core Configuration
| GeForce GT 1030 | | Radeon R7 250X | |
|---|
| GPU Name | GP108 (GP108-300-A1) | vs | Cape Verde (Cape Verde XT) |
| Fab Process | 14 nm | vs | 28 nm |
| Die Size | 74 mm² | vs | 123 mm² |
| Transistors | 1,800 million | vs | 1,500 million |
| Shaders | 384 | vs | 640 |
| Compute Units | 3 | vs | 10 |
| Core clock | 1228 MHz | vs | 950 MHz |
| ROPs | 16 | vs | 16 |
| TMUs | 24 | vs | 40 |
Memory Configuration
| GeForce GT 1030 | | Radeon R7 250X | |
|---|
| Memory Type | GDDR5 | vs | GDDR5 |
| Bus Width | 64 bit | vs | 128 bit |
| Memory Speed | 1502 MHz
6008 MHz effective | vs | 1125 MHz
4500 MHz effective |
| Memory Size | 2048 Mb | vs | 1024 Mb |
Additional details
| GeForce GT 1030 | | Radeon R7 250X | |
|---|
| TDP | 30 watts | vs | 80 watts |
| Release Date | 17 May 2017 | vs | 13 Feb 2014 |
GeForce GT 1030
23.49 GP/s
Radeon R7 250X
15.20 GP/s
GigaPixels - higher is better
GeForce GT 1030
35.23 GT/s
Radeon R7 250X
38.00 GT/s
GigaTexels - higher is better
GeForce GT 1030
48.06 GB/s
Radeon R7 250X
72.00 GB/s
GB/s - higher is better
GeForce GT 1030
1127.00 GFLOPs
Radeon R7 250X
1216.00 GFLOPs
GFLOPs - higher is better