GeForce GT 1030 and Radeon R9 290X2 - video card comparison
GeForce GT 1030
Radeon R9 290X2
Architecture
Pascal (2016−2021)
GCN 2.0 (2013−2017)
GPU code name
N17P-G1
Hawaii
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
May 2017
June 2014
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x4
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
4x 8-pin
Boost clock speed
1670 MHz
-
Core clock speed
1228 MHz
1000 MHz
Floating-point performance
1,127 gflops
2x 5,632 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
14 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
1,800 million
6,200 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
384
2816
Power consumption (TDP)
30 Watt
580 Watt
Texture fill rate
35.23
176.0
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
4 GB
Memory bus width
64 Bit
512 Bit
Memory clock speed
6000 MHz
5400 MHz
Memory bandwidth
48.06 GB/s
345.6 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x HDMI
2x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x DisplayPort
HDMI
+
+
G-SYNC support
+
-
DirectX
12 (12_1)
12 (12_0)
CUDA
6.1
-
OpenCL
1.2
2.0
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
6.4
6.3
Vulkan
1.2.131
1.2.131
VR Ready
+
-