GeForce GT 1030 vs Radeon RX 470

GeForce GT 1030
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 17 May 2017
GeForce GT 1030
Radeon RX 470
Memory: 4096Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 29 Jun 2016
Radeon RX 470

Summary

Reasons to consider GeForce GT 1030

90 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon RX 470 .
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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Pascal), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 RX 470

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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 RX 470

HWBench recommends Radeon RX 470

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GT 1030Radeon RX 470
GPU NameGP108 (GP108-300-A1)vsEllesmere (Ellesmere PRO)
Fab Process14 nmvs14 nm
Die Size74 mm²vs232 mm²
Transistors1,800 millionvs5,700 million
Shaders384vs2048
Compute Units3vs32
Core clock1228 MHzvs926 MHz
ROPs16vs32
TMUs24vs128

Memory Configuration

GeForce GT 1030Radeon RX 470
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width64 bitvs256 bit
Memory Speed1502 MHz
6008 MHz effective
vs1650 MHz
6600 MHz effective
Memory Size2048 Mbvs4096 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GT 1030Radeon RX 470
TDP30 wattsvs120 watts
Release Date17 May 2017vs29 Jun 2016

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GT 1030
    23.49 GP/s
  • Radeon RX 470
    38.60 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GT 1030
    35.23 GT/s
  • Radeon RX 470
    154.40 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GT 1030
    48.06 GB/s
  • Radeon RX 470
    211.20 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GT 1030
    1127.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon RX 470
    4940.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better