NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 DDR4 vs AMD Radeon R5 340X OEM

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 DDR4 and AMD Radeon R5 340X OEM 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, Geekbench - OpenCL, GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), 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 R5 340X OEM

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 DDR4

Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 10 month(s) later
Around 28% higher core clock speed: 1152 MHz vs 900 MHz
Around 31% higher boost clock speed: 1379 MHz vs 1050 MHz
Around 31% higher texture fill rate: 33.1 GTexel / s vs 25.2 GTexel / s
Around 31% better floating-point performance: 1,059 gflops vs 806.4 gflops
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 14 nm vs 28 nm
3.3x lower typical power consumption: 20 Watt vs 65 Watt
2x more maximum memory size: 2 GB vs 1 GB

Launch date	12 March 2018 vs 5 May 2015
Core clock speed	1152 MHz vs 900 MHz
Boost clock speed	1379 MHz vs 1050 MHz
Texture fill rate	33.1 GTexel / s vs 25.2 GTexel / s
Floating-point performance	1,059 gflops vs 806.4 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm vs 28 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	20 Watt vs 65 Watt
Maximum memory size	2 GB vs 1 GB

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon R5 340X OEM

Around 90% higher memory clock speed: 4000 MHz vs 2100 MHz

Memory clock speed	4000 MHz vs 2100 MHz

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 DDR4
GPU 2: AMD Radeon R5 340X OEM

Name	NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 DDR4	AMD Radeon R5 340X OEM
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	629
Geekbench - OpenCL		5150
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		1106
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		1106
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		1841
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		1841
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		3260
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		3260

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 DDR4	AMD Radeon R5 340X OEM
Essentials
Architecture	Pascal	GCN 1.0
Code name	GP108	Oland
Launch date	12 March 2018	5 May 2015
Launch price (MSRP)	$79
Place in performance rating	1476	1281
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1379 MHz	1050 MHz
Core clock speed	1152 MHz	900 MHz
Floating-point performance	1,059 gflops	806.4 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm	28 nm
Pipelines	384	384
Texture fill rate	33.1 GTexel / s	25.2 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	20 Watt	65 Watt
Transistor count	1,800 million	1,040 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x HDMI	1x DVI, 1x HDMI, 1x VGA
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x4	PCIe 3.0 x8
Length	145 mm
Supplementary power connectors	None	None
API support
DirectX	12.0 (12_1)	12.0 (11_1)
OpenGL	4.6	4.5
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	1 GB
Memory bandwidth	16.8 GB / s	72 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 Bit	128 Bit
Memory clock speed	2100 MHz	4000 MHz
Memory type	DDR4	GDDR5