NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 vs AMD Radeon R7 350

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 vs AMD Radeon R7 350, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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AMD Radeon R7 350

Price

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$ 129.95

$ 39.98

$ 89.97 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

695 points

134% significantly better overall score

297 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

15 FPS

8 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

7 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

10 FPS

6 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

4 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

10 FPS

4 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

6 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

8 FPS

6 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

2 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

10713 points

10951 points

2% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

10201 points

5% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

9660 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

9924 points

4% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

9524 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

9415 points

18% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

7976 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1228 MHz

22% slightly higher core clock speed

1000 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1468 MHz

39% slightly higher boost clock speed

1050 MHz

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

64 Bit

128 Bit

100% significantly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

48.06 GB/s

72 GB/s

49% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

30 W

83% significantly lower TDP

55 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

23.49 Gigapixels/s

83% significantly higher pixel rate

12.8 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

35.23 Gigatexels/s

37% slightly higher texture rate

25.6 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

384

512

33% slightly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

33% slightly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

292nd of 586

380th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 May

2016 July

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

GeForce GT 1030 vs Radeon R7 350 comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce GT 1030 GPU is faster than the Radeon R7 350 in gaming.

Our database shows that the GeForce GT 1030 has a slightly higher core clock speed. The core clock speed (or base speed) is the frequency at which the GPU core runs. This metric makes sense when comparing GPUs of a similar architecture or generation. In addition, the GeForce GT 1030 also has a slightly higher boost clock speed. This is a frequency that can be reached if the GPU is cooled sufficiently and has enough power.

In addition, the GeForce GT 1030 has a significantly lower TDP at 30 W when compared to the Radeon R7 350 at 55 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 R7 350.