NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 vs AMD Radeon HD 8400

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 vs AMD Radeon HD 8400, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

695 points
2382% significantly better overall score
28 points

Flux Core frame rate

Volumetric ray casting test, a computationally expensive method of rendering high-quality scenes

15 FPS
14 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate
1 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

10 FPS
10 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate
0 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

10 FPS
10 FPS significantly higher City frame rate
0 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

8 FPS
8 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate
0 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

10713 points
496% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
1796 points
Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

10201 points
582% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score
1494 points
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

9924 points
606% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
1404 points
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

9415 points
530% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score
1494 points

Specifications

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

30 W
25 W
20% slightly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

23.49 Gigapixels/s
878% significantly higher pixel rate
2.4 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

35.23 Gigatexels/s
633% significantly higher texture rate
4.8 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

384
200% significantly more shading units
128

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

24
200% significantly more texture mapping units
8

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

16
300% significantly more render output processors
4

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

292nd of 586
555th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 May
-

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5
-

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6
4.6

GeForce GT 1030 vs Radeon HD 8400 specs and performance

For gaming, the GeForce GT 1030 graphics card is better than the Radeon HD 8400 in our tests.

In addition, the Radeon HD 8400 has a slightly lower TDP at 25 W when compared to the GeForce GT 1030 at 30 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce GT 1030 is faster than the Radeon HD 8400.

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