Graphics card comparison
GeForce GT 1030 DDR4 vs Radeon R7 250X
Nvidia
GeForce GT 1030 DDR4
2048 Mb DDR4
Released 12 Mar 2018
DESKTOP
VS
AMD
Radeon R7 250X
1024 Mb GDDR5
Released 13 Feb 2014
DESKTOP
Summary
Reasons to consider the GeForce GT 1030 DDR4
- 60 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon R7 250X .
- This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
- 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- Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Pascal), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications
Reasons to consider the Radeon R7 250X
- Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
- Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
- Supports Mantle
- Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications
Our verdict
No clear winner declared
We have no data to declare a winner at this time.
Specifications
Core configuration
| GeForce GT 1030 DDR4 | Radeon R7 250X |
|---|
| GPU Name | GP108 (GP108-310-A1) | Cape Verde (Cape Verde XT) |
| Fab Process | 14 nm | 28 nm |
| Die Size | 74 mm² | 123 mm² |
| Transistors | 1,800 million | 1,500 million |
| Shaders | 384 | 640 |
| Compute Units | 3 | 10 |
| Core clock | 1152 MHz | 950 MHz |
| ROPs | 16 | 16 |
| TMUs | 24 | 40 |
Memory configuration
| GeForce GT 1030 DDR4 | Radeon R7 250X |
|---|
| Memory Type | DDR4 | GDDR5 |
| Bus Width | 64 bit | 128 bit |
| Memory Speed | 1050 MHz
2100 MHz effective | 1125 MHz
4500 MHz effective |
| Memory Size | 2048 Mb | 1024 Mb |
Additional details
| GeForce GT 1030 DDR4 | Radeon R7 250X |
|---|
| TDP | 20 watts | 80 watts |
| Release Date | 12 Mar 2018 | 13 Feb 2014 |
Raw performance comparison
Pixel Rate
- GeForce GT 1030 DDR422.06 GP/s
- Radeon R7 250X15.20 GP/s
GigaPixels - higher is better
Texel Rate
- GeForce GT 1030 DDR433.10 GT/s
- Radeon R7 250X38.00 GT/s
GigaTexels - higher is better
Memory bandwidth
- GeForce GT 1030 DDR416.80 GB/s
- Radeon R7 250X72.00 GB/s
GB/s - higher is better
Single precision performance
- GeForce GT 1030 DDR41059.00 GFLOPs
- Radeon R7 250X1216.00 GFLOPs
GFLOPs - higher is better