Radeon Vega 8 vs GeForce GT 1030

Radeon Vega 8
Memory: 0Mb System SharedDESKTOP
Release date: 13 Feb 2018
Radeon Vega 8
GeForce GT 1030
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 17 May 2017
GeForce GT 1030

Summary

Reasons to consider Radeon Vega 8

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider GeForce GT 1030

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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Pascal), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

No clear winner declared

We have no data to declare a winner at this time.


Specifications

Core Configuration

Radeon Vega 8GeForce GT 1030
GPU NameRaven Ridge ()vsGP108 (GP108-300-A1)
Fab Process14 nmvs14 nm
Die Size210 mm²vs74 mm²
Transistors4,940 millionvs1,800 million
Shaders512vs384
Compute Units8vs3
Core clock300 MHzvs1228 MHz
ROPs16vs16
TMUs32vs24

Memory Configuration

Radeon Vega 8GeForce GT 1030
Memory TypeSystem SharedvsGDDR5
Bus WidthSystem Sharedvs64 bit
Memory SpeedSystem Sharedvs1502 MHz
6008 MHz effective
Memory Size0 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

Radeon Vega 8GeForce GT 1030
TDP65 wattsvs30 watts
Release Date13 Feb 2018vs17 May 2017

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • Radeon Vega 8
    17.60 GP/s
  • GeForce GT 1030
    23.49 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • Radeon Vega 8
    35.20 GT/s
  • GeForce GT 1030
    35.23 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • Radeon Vega 8
    0.00 GB/s
  • GeForce GT 1030
    48.06 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • Radeon Vega 8
    1126.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GT 1030
    1127.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better