GeForce GT 1030 and Radeon R9 280X2 - video card comparison

GeForce GT 1030

Radeon R9 280X2

Architecture

Pascal (2016−2021)

GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)

GPU code name

N17P-G1

Tahiti

Market segment

Desktop

Desktop

Release date

May 2017

-

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x4

PCIe 3.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

None

3x 8-pin

Boost clock speed

1670 MHz

1000 MHz

Core clock speed

1228 MHz

-

Floating-point performance

1,127 gflops

-

Manufacturing process technology

14 nm

28 nm

Number of transistors

1,800 million

4,313 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

384

2048

Power consumption (TDP)

30 Watt

375 Watt

Texture fill rate

35.23

128.0

Memory type

GDDR5

GDDR5

Maximum RAM amount

4 GB

3 GB

Memory bus width

64 Bit

384 Bit

Memory clock speed

6000 MHz

6 GB/s

Memory bandwidth

48.06 GB/s

288.0 GB/s

Shared memory

-

-

Display Connectors

1x DVI, 1x HDMI

6x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

HDMI

+

-

G-SYNC support

+

-

DirectX

12 (12_1)

12 (11_1)

CUDA

6.1

-

OpenCL

1.2

2.1 (1.2)

OpenGL

4.6

4.6

Shader Model

6.4

6.5 (5.1)

Vulkan

1.2.131

1.2.170

VR Ready

+

-