AMD Radeon R9 390X vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030

Compare AMD Radeon R9 390X 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

65 points

695 points

969% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

25 FPS

10 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

15 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

23 FPS

13 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

10 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

30 FPS

20 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

10 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

14 FPS

6 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

8 FPS

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

4254 points

291% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

1087 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1050 MHz

1228 MHz

16% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1050 MHz

1468 MHz

39% slightly 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

67.2 Gigapixels/s

186% significantly higher pixel rate

23.49 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

184.8 Gigatexels/s

424% significantly higher texture rate

35.23 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2816

633% significantly more shading units

384

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

176

633% 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

534th of 586

291st 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 390X vs GeForce GT 1030 specs and performance

For gaming, the GeForce GT 1030 graphics card is better than the Radeon R9 390X in our tests.

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 slightly 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 R9 390X 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.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce GT 1030 is faster than the Radeon R9 390X.