NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 DDR4 vs AMD Radeon HD 7340

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 DDR4 and AMD Radeon HD 7340 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score, GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), PassMark - G2D Mark, PassMark - G3D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 DDR4

AMD Radeon HD 7340

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 DDR4

Videocard is newer: launch date 5 year(s) 10 month(s) later
2.2x more core clock speed: 1152 MHz vs 523 MHz
2x more boost clock speed: 1379 MHz vs 680 MHz
4.8x more pipelines: 384 vs 80
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 14 nm vs 40 nm

Launch date	12 March 2018 vs 1 May 2012
Core clock speed	1152 MHz vs 523 MHz
Boost clock speed	1379 MHz vs 680 MHz
Pipelines	384 vs 80
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm vs 40 nm

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 DDR4
GPU 2: AMD Radeon HD 7340

Name	NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 DDR4	AMD Radeon HD 7340
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	629
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		312
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		312
PassMark - G2D Mark		50
PassMark - G3D Mark		153
Geekbench - OpenCL		359
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		862
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		862
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		1467
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		1467

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 DDR4	AMD Radeon HD 7340
Essentials
Architecture	Pascal	Terascale 2
Code name	GP108	Zacate
Launch date	12 March 2018	1 May 2012
Launch price (MSRP)	$79	$552.69
Place in performance rating	1624	1621
Type	Desktop	Laptop
Price now		$552.69
Value for money (0-100)		0.45
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1379 MHz	680 MHz
Core clock speed	1152 MHz	523 MHz
Floating-point performance	1,059 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm	40 nm
Pipelines	384	80
Texture fill rate	33.1 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	20 Watt
Transistor count	1,800 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x HDMI
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x4
Length	145 mm
Supplementary power connectors	None
API support
DirectX	12.0 (12_1)	11
OpenGL	4.6
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB
Memory bandwidth	16.8 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	2100 MHz
Memory type	DDR4
Shared memory		1