Graphics card comparison
GeForce GT 1030 vs Radeon R7 260X
Nvidia
GeForce GT 1030
2048 Mb GDDR5
Released 17 May 2017
DESKTOP
VS
AMD
Radeon R7 260X
2048 Mb GDDR5
Released 8 Oct 2013
DESKTOP
Summary
Reasons to consider the GeForce GT 1030
- 85 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon R7 260X .
- 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- Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Pascal), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 260X
- Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
- Supports FreeSync
- Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
- Supports TrueAudio
- Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 | Radeon R7 260X |
|---|
| GPU Name | GP108 (GP108-300-A1) | Bonaire (Bonaire XTX) |
| Fab Process | 14 nm | 28 nm |
| Die Size | 74 mm² | 160 mm² |
| Transistors | 1,800 million | 2,080 million |
| Shaders | 384 | 896 |
| Compute Units | 3 | 14 |
| Core clock | 1228 MHz | 1100 MHz |
| ROPs | 16 | 16 |
| TMUs | 24 | 56 |
Memory configuration
| GeForce GT 1030 | Radeon R7 260X |
|---|
| Memory Type | GDDR5 | GDDR5 |
| Bus Width | 64 bit | 128 bit |
| Memory Speed | 1502 MHz
6008 MHz effective | 1625 MHz
6500 MHz effective |
| Memory Size | 2048 Mb | 2048 Mb |
Additional details
| GeForce GT 1030 | Radeon R7 260X |
|---|
| TDP | 30 watts | 115 watts |
| Release Date | 17 May 2017 | 8 Oct 2013 |
Raw performance comparison
Pixel Rate
- GeForce GT 103023.49 GP/s
- Radeon R7 260X17.60 GP/s
GigaPixels - higher is better
Texel Rate
- GeForce GT 103035.23 GT/s
- Radeon R7 260X61.60 GT/s
GigaTexels - higher is better
Memory bandwidth
- GeForce GT 103048.06 GB/s
- Radeon R7 260X104.00 GB/s
GB/s - higher is better
Single precision performance
- GeForce GT 10301127.00 GFLOPs
- Radeon R7 260X1971.00 GFLOPs
GFLOPs - higher is better