GeForce GT 1030 vs Radeon R9 390

GeForce GT 1030
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 17 May 2017
GeForce GT 1030
Radeon R9 390
Memory: 8192Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 18 Jun 2015
Radeon R9 390

Summary

Reasons to consider GeForce GT 1030

245 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon R9 390 .
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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Pascal), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 390

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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 390

HWBench recommends Radeon R9 390

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GT 1030Radeon R9 390
GPU NameGP108 (GP108-300-A1)vsGrenada (Grenada PRO)
Fab Process14 nmvs28 nm
Die Size74 mm²vs438 mm²
Transistors1,800 millionvs6,200 million
Shaders384vs2560
Compute Units3vs40
Core clock1228 MHzvs1000 MHz
ROPs16vs64
TMUs24vs160

Memory Configuration

GeForce GT 1030Radeon R9 390
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width64 bitvs512 bit
Memory Speed1502 MHz
6008 MHz effective
vs1500 MHz
6000 MHz effective
Memory Size2048 Mbvs8192 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GT 1030Radeon R9 390
TDP30 wattsvs275 watts
Release Date17 May 2017vs18 Jun 2015

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GT 1030
    23.49 GP/s
  • Radeon R9 390
    64.00 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GT 1030
    35.23 GT/s
  • Radeon R9 390
    160.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GT 1030
    48.06 GB/s
  • Radeon R9 390
    384.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GT 1030
    1127.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon R9 390
    5120.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better