NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 vs AMD Radeon R5 340X

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 vs AMD Radeon R5 340X, 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
199% significantly better overall score
232 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

15 FPS
9 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate
6 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

10 FPS
7 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate
3 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

10 FPS
5 FPS significantly higher City frame rate
5 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

8 FPS
7 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate
1 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

10713 points
100% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
5341 points
Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

10201 points
106% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score
4929 points
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

9924 points
92% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
5148 points
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

9415 points
98% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score
4748 points

Specifications

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

64 Bit
Identical
64 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

48.06 GB/s
200% significantly higher memory bandwidth
16 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

30 W
116% significantly lower TDP
65 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

23.49 Gigapixels/s
226% significantly higher pixel rate
7.2 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

35.23 Gigatexels/s
63% significantly higher texture rate
21.6 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

384
Identical
384

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

24
Identical
24

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

16
100% significantly more render output processors
8

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

292nd of 586
410th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 May
2015 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5
DDR3

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 R5 340X specs and performance

For gaming, the GeForce GT 1030 graphics card is better than the Radeon R5 340X in our tests.

In addition, the GeForce GT 1030 has a significantly lower TDP at 30 W when compared to the Radeon R5 340X at 65 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce GT 1030 is faster than the Radeon R5 340X.

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