Radeon R5 Graphics vs GeForce GT 1030 GK107

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Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the rankingnot ratednot rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
ArchitectureKepler (2012−2018)GCN 2.0 (2013−2017)
GPU code nameGK107Spectre SL
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date30 September 2018 (6 years ago)17 September 2014 (10 years ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores384256
Core clock speed1058 MHz497 MHz
Boost clock speedno data720 MHz
Number of transistors1,270 million2,410 million
Manufacturing process technology28 nm28 nm
Power consumption (TDP)65 Watt15 Watt
Texture fill rate33.867.952
Floating-point processing power0.8125 TFLOPS0.2545 TFLOPS
ROPs164
TMUs3216

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

InterfacePCIe 3.0 x16IGP
Length147 mmno data
Width1-slotIGP
Supplementary power connectors1x 6-pinno data

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR5System Shared
Maximum RAM amount2 GBSystem Shared
Memory bus width128 BitSystem Shared
Memory clock speed1250 MHzSystem Shared
Memory bandwidth80 GB/sno data

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors2x DVI, 1x mini-HDMINo outputs
HDMI+-

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12 (11_0)12 (12_0)
Shader Model5.16.0
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL1.22.0
Vulkan1.1.1261.2.131
CUDA3.0-

Pros & cons summary


Recency 30 September 2018 17 September 2014
Power consumption (TDP) 65 Watt 15 Watt

GT 1030 GK107 has an age advantage of 4 years.

R5 Graphics, on the other hand, has 333.3% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between GeForce GT 1030 GK107 and Radeon R5 Graphics. We've got no test results to judge.


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NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 GK107
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