GeForce GT 1030 DDR4 vs Radeon HD 8740 OEM

GeForce GT 1030 DDR4
Memory: 2048Mb DDR4DESKTOP
Release date: 12 Mar 2018
GeForce GT 1030 DDR4
Radeon HD 8740 OEM
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 5 Sep 2013
Radeon HD 8740 OEM

Summary

Reasons to consider GeForce GT 1030 DDR4

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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Pascal), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 Radeon HD 8740 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Based on an outdated architecture (AMD GCN), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

No clear winner declared

We have no data to declare a winner at this time.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GT 1030 DDR4Radeon HD 8740 OEM
GPU NameGP108 (GP108-310-A1)vsCape Verde (Cape Verde PRO)
Fab Process14 nmvs28 nm
Die Size74 mm²vs123 mm²
Transistors1,800 millionvs1,500 million
Shaders384vs512
Compute Units3vs8
Core clock1152 MHzvs800 MHz
ROPs16vs16
TMUs24vs32

Memory Configuration

GeForce GT 1030 DDR4Radeon HD 8740 OEM
Memory TypeDDR4vsGDDR5
Bus Width64 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed1050 MHz
2100 MHz effective
vs1125 MHz
4500 MHz effective
Memory Size2048 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GT 1030 DDR4Radeon HD 8740 OEM
TDP20 wattsvs55 watts
Release Date12 Mar 2018vs5 Sep 2013

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GT 1030 DDR4
    22.06 GP/s
  • Radeon HD 8740 OEM
    12.80 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GT 1030 DDR4
    33.10 GT/s
  • Radeon HD 8740 OEM
    25.60 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GT 1030 DDR4
    16.80 GB/s
  • Radeon HD 8740 OEM
    72.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GT 1030 DDR4
    1059.00 GFLOPs
  • Radeon HD 8740 OEM
    819.20 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better