GeForce GT 1030 vs Radeon R9 255 OEM

GeForce GT 1030
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 17 May 2017
GeForce GT 1030
Radeon R9 255 OEM
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 21 Dec 2013
Radeon R9 255 OEM

Summary

Reasons to consider GeForce GT 1030

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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Pascal), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 R9 255 OEM

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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

GeForce GT 1030

HWBench recommends GeForce GT 1030

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GT 1030Radeon R9 255 OEM
GPU NameGP108 (GP108-300-A1)vsCape Verde (Cape Verde PRX)
Fab Process14 nmvs28 nm
Die Size74 mm²vs123 mm²
Transistors1,800 millionvs1,500 million
Shaders384vs512
Compute Units3vs8
Core clock1228 MHzvs900 MHz
ROPs16vs16
TMUs24vs32

Memory Configuration

GeForce GT 1030Radeon R9 255 OEM
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width64 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed1502 MHz
6008 MHz effective
vs1150 MHz
4600 MHz effective
Memory Size2048 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GT 1030Radeon R9 255 OEM
TDP30 wattsvs65 watts
Release Date17 May 2017vs21 Dec 2013

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GT 1030
    23.49 GP/s
  • Radeon R9 255 OEM
    14.40 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GT 1030
    35.23 GT/s
  • Radeon R9 255 OEM
    28.80 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GT 1030
    48.06 GB/s
  • Radeon R9 255 OEM
    73.60 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GT 1030
    1127.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon R9 255 OEM
    921.60 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better