AMD Radeon RX 580 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030

Compare AMD Radeon RX 580 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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$ 139.19

$ 129.95

$ 9.24 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2281 points

228% significantly better overall score

695 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

47 FPS

32 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

15 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

34 FPS

24 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

10 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

48 FPS

38 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

10 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

18 FPS

10 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

8 FPS

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

4328 points

298% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

1087 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

390.99 points

442% significantly higher Blender score

72.05 points

Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

44601 points

861% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

4637 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

49182 points

359% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

10713 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

54191 points

431% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

10201 points

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

52261 points

1027% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

4637 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

45779 points

361% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

9924 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

53514 points

468% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

9415 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1257 MHz

2% slightly higher core clock speed

1228 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1340 MHz

1468 MHz

9% 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

256 GB/s

432% significantly higher memory bandwidth

48.06 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

185 W

30 W

516% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

42.88 Gigapixels/s

82% significantly higher pixel rate

23.49 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

192.96 Gigatexels/s

447% significantly higher texture rate

35.23 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

2304

499% significantly more shading units

384

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

144

499% 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

192nd of 586

292nd of 586

Family

The product line

Radeon RX 500 Series

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 April

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 580 vs GeForce GT 1030 specs and performance

For gaming, the Radeon RX 580 graphics card is better than the GeForce GT 1030 in our tests.

In our comparison, the Radeon RX 580 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. Despite this, the GeForce GT 1030 has a slightly 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 RX 580 at 185 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the Radeon RX 580 is better than the GeForce GT 1030.