AMD Radeon R7 260X vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030

Compare AMD Radeon R7 260X 2 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

779 points

12% slightly better overall score

695 points

Flux Core frame rate

Volumetric ray casting test, a computationally expensive method of rendering high-quality scenes

19 FPS

4 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

15 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

11 FPS

1 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

10 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

16 FPS

6 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

10 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

6 FPS

8 FPS

2 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

1500 points

37% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score

1087 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1100 MHz

1228 MHz

11% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1000 MHz

1468 MHz

46% significantly higher boost clock speed

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

128 Bit

100% significantly larger memory bus width

64 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

104 GB/s

116% significantly higher memory bandwidth

48.06 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

115 W

30 W

283% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

17.6 Gigapixels/s

23.49 Gigapixels/s

33% slightly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

61.6 Gigatexels/s

74% significantly higher texture rate

35.23 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

896

133% significantly more shading units

384

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

133% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

Identical

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Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

283rd of 586

292nd of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon R7 200 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.4

4.6

Radeon R7 260X vs GeForce GT 1030 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the Radeon R7 260X beats the GeForce GT 1030 in gaming performance.

Our database shows that the GeForce GT 1030 has a slightly higher core clock speed. The core clock speed (or base speed) is the frequency at which the GPU core runs. This metric makes sense when comparing GPUs of a similar architecture or generation. In addition, the GeForce GT 1030 also has a significantly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

In addition, the GeForce GT 1030 has a significantly lower TDP at 30 W when compared to the Radeon R7 260X at 115 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the Radeon R7 260X over the GeForce GT 1030.