AMD Radeon RX 470 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030

Compare AMD Radeon RX 470 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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NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030

Price

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$ 4438.00

$ 129.95

$ 4308.05 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

1827 points

162% significantly better overall score

695 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

38 FPS

23 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

15 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

27 FPS

17 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

10 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

38 FPS

27 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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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

3668 points

237% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

1087 points

Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

38292 points

725% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

4637 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

39085 points

264% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

10713 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

41542 points

307% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

10201 points

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

41978 points

805% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

4637 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

33559 points

238% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

9924 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

42112 points

347% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

9415 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

926 MHz

1228 MHz

32% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1206 MHz

1468 MHz

21% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit

300% significantly larger memory bus width

64 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

211 GB/s

339% significantly higher memory bandwidth

48.06 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

120 W

30 W

300% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

38.59 Gigapixels/s

64% significantly higher pixel rate

23.49 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

154.4 Gigatexels/s

338% significantly higher texture rate

35.23 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2048

433% significantly more shading units

384

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

128

433% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

100% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

219th of 586

291st of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 400 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 August

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 RX 470 vs GeForce GT 1030 benchmarks

For gaming, the Radeon RX 470 graphics card is better than the GeForce GT 1030 in our tests.

Our database shows that 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 slightly higher boost clock speed. This is a frequency that can be reached if the GPU is cooled sufficiently and has enough power.

In addition, the GeForce GT 1030 has a significantly lower TDP at 30 W when compared to the Radeon RX 470 at 120 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the Radeon RX 470 over the GeForce GT 1030.