GeForce GT 1030 GK107 vs Radeon RX 590

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking229not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Cost-effectiveness evaluation25.04no data
Power efficiency9.55no data
ArchitectureGCN 4.0 (2016−2020)Kepler (2012−2018)
GPU code namePolaris 30GK107
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date15 November 2018 (6 years ago)30 September 2018 (6 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$279 no data

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

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Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores2304384
Core clock speed1469 MHz1058 MHz
Boost clock speed1545 MHzno data
Number of transistors5,700 million1,270 million
Manufacturing process technology12 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)175 Watt65 Watt
Texture fill rate222.533.86
Floating-point processing power7.119 TFLOPS0.8125 TFLOPS
ROPs3216
TMUs14432

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16PCIe 3.0 x16
Length241 mm147 mm
Width2-slot1-slot
Supplementary power connectors1x 8-pin1x 6-pin

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR5GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount8 GB2 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit128 Bit
Memory clock speed2000 MHz1250 MHz
Memory bandwidth256.0 GB/s80 GB/s
Shared memory--

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors1x HDMI, 3x DisplayPort2x DVI, 1x mini-HDMI
HDMI++

Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

FreeSync+-

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12 (12_0)12 (11_0)
Shader Model6.45.1
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL2.01.2
Vulkan1.2.1311.1.126
CUDA-3.0

Pros & cons summary


Recency 15 November 2018 30 September 2018
Maximum RAM amount 8 GB 2 GB
Chip lithography 12 nm 28 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 175 Watt 65 Watt

RX 590 has an age advantage of 1 month, a 300% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 133.3% more advanced lithography process.

GT 1030 GK107, on the other hand, has 169.2% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Radeon RX 590 and GeForce GT 1030 GK107. We've got no test results to judge.


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