AMD Radeon RX 560
vs
NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030

Our Verdict: The RX 560 is faster by 44% for 1440p gaming.

Game Performance at selected quality settings

AMD Radeon RX 560 / Core i7-7700K @ 4.20GHz

The RX 560 is more suitable for budget PC builds and less demanding games. The price/performance ratio is excellent for RX 560 against the competition in budget graphics cards. The RX 560 's power requirements are reasonable and it is very efficient compared to the competition. With regards to max load temperature, the RX 560 's cooling is excellent at keeping it cool and under control. With current 4096 MB RAM, the RX 560 can have very few memory-related bottlenecks in more modern games.

NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 / Core i7-7700K @ 4.20GHz

The GT 1030 is more suitable for budget PC builds and less demanding games. With current 2048 MB RAM, the GT 1030 can have serious memory-related bottlenecks in more modern games. The GT 1030 's power requirements are reasonable and it is very efficient compared to the competition. With current 2048 MB RAM, the GT 1030 can have very few memory-related bottlenecks in more modern games.

Board Design

	RX 560	GT 1030
Board Number	C994	PG110
Length	6.7 inches 170 mm	5.7 inches 145 mm
Outputs	1x DVI1x HDMI1x DisplayPort	1x DVI1x HDMI
Power Connectors	None	None
Slot Width	Dual-slot	Single-slot
TDP	75 W	30 W

Clock Speeds

	RX 560	GT 1030
Boost Clock	1275 MHz	1468 MHz
GPU Clock	1175 MHz	1228 MHz
Memory Clock	1750 MHz 7000 MHz effective	1502 MHz 6008 MHz effective

Graphics Card

	RX 560	GT 1030
Bus Interface	PCIe 3.0 x8	PCIe 3.0 x4
Generation	Polaris (RX 500)	GeForce 1000
Launch Price	99 USD	79 USD
Production	Active	Active
Release Date	Apr 18th, 2017	May 17th, 2017

Graphics Features

	RX 560	GT 1030
DirectX	12.0 (12_0)	12.0 (12_1)
OpenCL	2	1.2
OpenGL	4.5	4.6
Shader Model	6	6.1
Vulkan	1.1.82	1.1.82

Graphics Processor

	RX 560	GT 1030
Architecture	GCN 4.0	Pascal
Die Size	123 mm²	74 mm²
GPU Name	Polaris 21	GP108
GPU Variant	Polaris 21 XT (215-0908004)	GP108-300-A1
Process Size	14 nm	14 nm
Transistors	3,000 million	1,800 million

Memory

	RX 560	GT 1030
Bandwidth	112.0 GB/s	48.06 GB/s
Memory Bus	128 bit	64 bit
Memory Size	4096 MB	2048 MB
Memory Type	GDDR5	GDDR5

Render Config

	RX 560	GT 1030
ROPs	16	16
Shading Units	1024	384
TMUs	64	24

Theoretical Performance

	RX 560	GT 1030
FP16 (half) performance	2,611 GFLOPS (1:1)	17.62 GFLOPS (1:64)
FP32 (float) performance	2,611 GFLOPS	1,127 GFLOPS
FP64 (double) performance	163.2 GFLOPS (1:16)	35.23 GFLOPS (1:32)
Pixel Rate	20.40 GPixel/s	23.49 GPixel/s
Texture Rate	81.60 GTexel/s	35.23 GTexel/s