GeForce GT 1030 vs Radeon RX 580

GeForce GT 1030
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 17 May 2017
GeForce GT 1030
Radeon RX 580
Memory: 8192Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 1 Apr 2017
Radeon RX 580

Summary

Reasons to consider GeForce GT 1030

120 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon RX 580 .
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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Pascal), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 580

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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 580

HWBench recommends Radeon RX 580

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GT 1030Radeon RX 580
GPU NameGP108 (GP108-300-A1)vsEllesmere (Ellesmere XT)
Fab Process14 nmvs14 nm
Die Size74 mm²vs232 mm²
Transistors1,800 millionvs5,700 million
Shaders384vs2304
Compute Units3vs36
Core clock1228 MHzvs1120 MHz
ROPs16vs32
TMUs24vs144

Memory Configuration

GeForce GT 1030Radeon RX 580
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width64 bitvs256 bit
Memory Speed1502 MHz
6008 MHz effective
vs2000 MHz
8000 MHz effective
Memory Size2048 Mbvs8192 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GT 1030Radeon RX 580
TDP30 wattsvs150 watts
Release Date17 May 2017vs1 Apr 2017

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GT 1030
    23.49 GP/s
  • Radeon RX 580
    40.50 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GT 1030
    35.23 GT/s
  • Radeon RX 580
    182.30 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GT 1030
    48.06 GB/s
  • Radeon RX 580
    256.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GT 1030
    1127.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon RX 580
    5834.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better