Graphics card comparison
GeForce GT 1030 DDR4 vs Radeon R5 340X OEM
Nvidia
GeForce GT 1030 DDR4
2048 Mb DDR4
Released 12 Mar 2018
DESKTOP
VS
AMD
Radeon R5 340X OEM
1024 Mb GDDR5
Released 5 May 2015
DESKTOP
Summary
Reasons to consider the GeForce GT 1030 DDR4
- 45 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the Radeon R5 340X OEM .
- This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
- Supports PhysX
- Supports G-Sync
- Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
- Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
- Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Pascal), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications
Reasons to consider the Radeon R5 340X OEM
- Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
- Supports ReLive (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
- Supports Mantle
- Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications
Our verdict
No clear winner declared
We have no data to declare a winner at this time.
Specifications
Core configuration
| GeForce GT 1030 DDR4 | Radeon R5 340X OEM |
|---|
| GPU Name | GP108 (GP108-310-A1) | Oland (Oland XT) |
| Fab Process | 14 nm | 28 nm |
| Die Size | 74 mm² | 90 mm² |
| Transistors | 1,800 million | 1,040 million |
| Shaders | 384 | 384 |
| Compute Units | 3 | 6 |
| Core clock | 1152 MHz | 1000 MHz |
| ROPs | 16 | 8 |
| TMUs | 24 | 24 |
Memory configuration
| GeForce GT 1030 DDR4 | Radeon R5 340X OEM |
|---|
| Memory Type | DDR4 | GDDR5 |
| Bus Width | 64 bit | 128 bit |
| Memory Speed | 1050 MHz
2100 MHz effective | 1125 MHz
4500 MHz effective |
| Memory Size | 2048 Mb | 1024 Mb |
Additional details
| GeForce GT 1030 DDR4 | Radeon R5 340X OEM |
|---|
| TDP | 20 watts | 65 watts |
| Release Date | 12 Mar 2018 | 5 May 2015 |
Raw performance comparison
Pixel Rate
- GeForce GT 1030 DDR422.06 GP/s
- Radeon R5 340X OEM8.00 GP/s
GigaPixels - higher is better
Texel Rate
- GeForce GT 1030 DDR433.10 GT/s
- Radeon R5 340X OEM24.00 GT/s
GigaTexels - higher is better
Memory bandwidth
- GeForce GT 1030 DDR416.80 GB/s
- Radeon R5 340X OEM72.00 GB/s
GB/s - higher is better
Single precision performance
- GeForce GT 1030 DDR41059.00 GFLOPs
- Radeon R5 340X OEM768.00 GFLOPs
GFLOPs - higher is better