Graphics card comparison
Radeon Vega 8 vs GeForce GT 1030
AMD
Radeon Vega 8
0 Mb System Shared
Released 13 Feb 2018
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VS
Nvidia
GeForce GT 1030
2048 Mb GDDR5
Released 17 May 2017
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Summary
Reasons to consider the Radeon Vega 8
- This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
- 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- Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications
Reasons to consider the GeForce GT 1030
- 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- Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Pascal), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications
Our verdict
No clear winner declared
We have no data to declare a winner at this time.
Specifications
Core configuration
| Radeon Vega 8 | GeForce GT 1030 |
|---|
| GPU Name | Raven Ridge () | GP108 (GP108-300-A1) |
| Fab Process | 14 nm | 14 nm |
| Die Size | 210 mm² | 74 mm² |
| Transistors | 4,940 million | 1,800 million |
| Shaders | 512 | 384 |
| Compute Units | 8 | 3 |
| Core clock | 300 MHz | 1228 MHz |
| ROPs | 16 | 16 |
| TMUs | 32 | 24 |
Memory configuration
| Radeon Vega 8 | GeForce GT 1030 |
|---|
| Memory Type | System Shared | GDDR5 |
| Bus Width | System Shared | 64 bit |
| Memory Speed | System Shared | 1502 MHz
6008 MHz effective |
| Memory Size | 0 Mb | 2048 Mb |
Additional details
| Radeon Vega 8 | GeForce GT 1030 |
|---|
| TDP | 65 watts | 30 watts |
| Release Date | 13 Feb 2018 | 17 May 2017 |
Raw performance comparison
Pixel Rate
- Radeon Vega 817.60 GP/s
- GeForce GT 103023.49 GP/s
GigaPixels - higher is better
Texel Rate
- Radeon Vega 835.20 GT/s
- GeForce GT 103035.23 GT/s
GigaTexels - higher is better
Memory bandwidth
- Radeon Vega 80.00 GB/s
- GeForce GT 103048.06 GB/s
GB/s - higher is better
Single precision performance
- Radeon Vega 81126.00 GFLOPs
- GeForce GT 10301127.00 GFLOPs
GFLOPs - higher is better