NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 DDR4 vs AMD Radeon HD 7850

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 DDR4 and AMD Radeon HD 7850 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score, PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 DDR4

AMD Radeon HD 7850

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 DDR4

Videocard is newer: launch date 6 year(s) 0 month(s) later
Around 38% higher boost clock speed: 1379 MHz vs 1000 MHz
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 14 nm vs 28 nm
11.3x lower typical power consumption: 20 Watt vs 225 Watt
Around 75% higher memory clock speed: 2100 MHz vs 1200 MHz

Launch date	12 March 2018 vs 5 March 2012
Boost clock speed	1379 MHz vs 1000 MHz
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm vs 28 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	20 Watt vs 225 Watt
Memory clock speed	2100 MHz vs 1200 MHz

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon HD 7850

Around 66% higher texture fill rate: 55.04 GTexel / s vs 33.1 GTexel / s
2.7x more pipelines: 1024 vs 384
Around 66% better floating-point performance: 1,761 gflops vs 1,059 gflops
2.1x better performance in 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score: 1312 vs 629

Specifications (specs)
Texture fill rate	55.04 GTexel / s vs 33.1 GTexel / s
Pipelines	1024 vs 384
Floating-point performance	1,761 gflops vs 1,059 gflops
Benchmarks
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	1312 vs 629

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 DDR4
GPU 2: AMD Radeon HD 7850

3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score

GPU 1

GPU 2

629

1312

Name	NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 DDR4	AMD Radeon HD 7850
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	629	1312
PassMark - G3D Mark		3885
PassMark - G2D Mark		567
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		47.041
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		1028.005
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		4.41
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		72.975
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		249.482
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		6173
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		3696
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		3351
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		6173
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		3696
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		3351

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 DDR4	AMD Radeon HD 7850
Essentials
Architecture	Pascal	GCN 1.0
Code name	GP108	Pitcairn
Launch date	12 March 2018	5 March 2012
Launch price (MSRP)	$79	$249
Place in performance rating	1476	520
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Design		AMD Radeon HD 7000 Series
Price now		$449.59
Value for money (0-100)		11.01
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1379 MHz	1000 MHz
Core clock speed	1152 MHz
Floating-point performance	1,059 gflops	1,761 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm	28 nm
Pipelines	384	1024
Texture fill rate	33.1 GTexel / s	55.04 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	20 Watt	225 Watt
Transistor count	1,800 million	2,800 million
Stream Processors		1200
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x HDMI	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 2x mini-DisplayPort
DisplayPort support
Dual-link DVI support
Eyefinity
HDMI
VGA
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x4	PCIe 3.0 x16
Length	145 mm	210 mm
Supplementary power connectors	None	1x 6-pin
Bus support		PCIe 2.1 x16
API support
DirectX	12.0 (12_1)	11
OpenGL	4.6	4.5
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	2 GB
Memory bandwidth	16.8 GB / s	153.6 GB/s
Memory bus width	64 Bit	256 Bit
Memory clock speed	2100 MHz	1200 MHz
Memory type	DDR4	GDDR5
Technologies
AMD Eyefinity
CrossFire
FreeSync