GeForce GT 1030 vs Radeon R7 260

GeForce GT 1030
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 17 May 2017
GeForce GT 1030
Radeon R7 260
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 17 Dec 2013
Radeon R7 260

Summary

Reasons to consider GeForce GT 1030

65 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon R7 260 .
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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Pascal), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 260

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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

GeForce GT 1030

HWBench recommends GeForce GT 1030

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GT 1030Radeon R7 260
GPU NameGP108 (GP108-300-A1)vsBonaire (Bonaire PRO)
Fab Process14 nmvs28 nm
Die Size74 mm²vs160 mm²
Transistors1,800 millionvs2,080 million
Shaders384vs768
Compute Units3vs12
Core clock1228 MHzvs1000 MHz
ROPs16vs16
TMUs24vs48

Memory Configuration

GeForce GT 1030Radeon R7 260
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width64 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed1502 MHz
6008 MHz effective
vs1500 MHz
6000 MHz effective
Memory Size2048 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GT 1030Radeon R7 260
TDP30 wattsvs95 watts
Release Date17 May 2017vs17 Dec 2013

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GT 1030
    23.49 GP/s
  • Radeon R7 260
    16.00 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GT 1030
    35.23 GT/s
  • Radeon R7 260
    48.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GT 1030
    48.06 GB/s
  • Radeon R7 260
    96.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GT 1030
    1127.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon R7 260
    1536.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better