NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 DDR4 vs AMD Radeon Vega 8 Embedded

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 DDR4 and AMD Radeon Vega 8 Embedded 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, PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, 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 Vega 8 Embedded

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 DDR4

3.8x more core clock speed: 1152 MHz vs 300 MHz
Around 6% higher boost clock speed: 1379 MHz vs 1300 MHz

Core clock speed	1152 MHz vs 300 MHz
Boost clock speed	1379 MHz vs 1300 MHz

Reasons to consider the AMD Radeon Vega 8 Embedded

Around 33% lower typical power consumption: 15 Watt vs 20 Watt
Around 12% better performance in 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score: 705 vs 629

Specifications (specs)
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	15 Watt vs 20 Watt
Benchmarks
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	705 vs 629

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 DDR4
GPU 2: AMD Radeon Vega 8 Embedded

3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score

GPU 1

GPU 2

629

705

Name	NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 DDR4	AMD Radeon Vega 8 Embedded
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	629	705
PassMark - G3D Mark		1579
PassMark - G2D Mark		408
Geekbench - OpenCL		8803
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		25.891
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		365.4
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		2.104
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		37.17
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		132.07
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		1514
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		2433
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		6729
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		1514
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		2433
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		6729

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 DDR4	AMD Radeon Vega 8 Embedded
Essentials
Architecture	Pascal	GCN 5.0
Code name	GP108	Owl
Launch date	12 March 2018	13 February 2018
Launch price (MSRP)	$79
Place in performance rating	1476	932
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1379 MHz	1300 MHz
Core clock speed	1152 MHz	300 MHz
Floating-point performance	1,059 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm	14 nm
Pipelines	384
Texture fill rate	33.1 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	20 Watt	15 Watt
Transistor count	1,800 million	4,940 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x HDMI	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x4	IGP
Length	145 mm
Supplementary power connectors	None	None
API support
DirectX	12.0 (12_1)	12.0 (12_1)
OpenGL	4.6	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