AMD Radeon R9 390 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030

Compare AMD Radeon R9 390 8 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

1919 points

176% significantly better overall score

695 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

44 FPS

29 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

15 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

28 FPS

18 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

10 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

39 FPS

29 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

10 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

15 FPS

7 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

8 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

3950 points

263% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

1087 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

46328 points

332% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

10713 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

49594 points

386% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

10201 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

43704 points

340% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

9924 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

51251 points

444% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

9415 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1000 MHz

1228 MHz

22% 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

512 Bit

700% significantly larger memory bus width

64 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

384 GB/s

699% significantly higher memory bandwidth

48.06 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

275 W

30 W

816% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

64 Gigapixels/s

172% significantly higher pixel rate

23.49 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

160 Gigatexels/s

354% significantly higher texture rate

35.23 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2560

566% significantly more shading units

384

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

160

566% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

300% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

215th of 586

292nd of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon R9 300 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2015 June

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

4.5

4.6

Radeon R9 390 vs GeForce GT 1030 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the Radeon R9 390 GPU is faster than the GeForce GT 1030 in gaming.

The GeForce GT 1030 has a slightly higher core clock speed. This is the frequency at which the graphics core is running at. While not necessarily an indicator of overall performance, this metric can be useful when comparing two GPUs based on the same architecture. In addition, the GeForce GT 1030 also has a significantly higher boost clock speed. The boost clock speed is the frequency that the GPU core can reach if the temperature is low enough. The allows for higher performance in certain scenarios.

In addition, the GeForce GT 1030 has a significantly lower TDP at 30 W when compared to the Radeon R9 390 at 275 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the Radeon R9 390 over the GeForce GT 1030.