Radeon R9 M270X and GeForce GT 1030 DDR4 - video card comparison

Radeon R9 M270X

GeForce GT 1030 DDR4

Architecture

GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)

Pascal (2016−2021)

GPU code name

Venus

GP108

Market segment

Desktop

Desktop

Release date

March 2014

March 2018

Bus support

PCIe 3.0 x16

-

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

PCIe 3.0 x4

Supplementary power connectors

-

None

Boost clock speed

775 MHz

1379 MHz

Compute units

10

-

Core clock speed

725 MHz

1152 MHz

Floating-point performance

1,536 gflops

1,059 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

28 nm

14 nm

Number of transistors

1,500 million

1,800 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

640

384

Power consumption (TDP)

-

20 Watt

Texture fill rate

31.00

33.10

Memory type

GDDR5

DDR4

Maximum RAM amount

4 GB

2 GB

Memory bus width

128 Bit

64 Bit

Memory clock speed

1125 MHz

2100 MHz

Memory bandwidth

72 GB/s

16.8 GB/s

Display Connectors

No outputs

1x DVI, 1x HDMI

Eyefinity

1

-

HDMI

-

+

DirectX

DirectX® 11

12 (12_1)

CUDA

-

6.1

Mantle

+

-

OpenCL

Not Listed

1.2

OpenGL

4.4

4.6

Shader Model

5.1

6.4

Vulkan

-

1.2.131

AppAcceleration

-

-

DualGraphics

1

-

Enduro

-

-

FreeSync

1

-

HD3D

+

-

PowerTune

+

-

Switchable graphics

1

-

TrueAudio

-

-

ZeroCore

+

-