NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 (Desktop) vs AMD Radeon HD 7560D vs AMD Radeon HD 7480D

NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 (Desktop)

The Nvidia GeForce GT 1030 (sometime GTX 1030 called) is an entry level dedicated graphics card for desktops. It is based on the GP108 chip using the Pascal architecture in 14nm FinFET. It features three streaming multiprocessors (SMs) and therefore 384 shader cores, 24 texture units and 16 ROPs. The 2 GB GDDR5 memory are connected with two 32 Bit memory controller (48 GBit/s). The shaders are identical to other Pascal cards like the GTX 1050 and therefore also the support for DirectX 12 FL 12_1.

The performance is slightly below the Radeon RX 550 from AMD and therefore only suited for low to medium detail settings of modern games like Battlefield 1.

The TDP of the GT1030 is specified as 30 Watt.

AMD Radeon HD 7560D

The AMD Radeon HD 7560D or HD7560D is a processor graphics card in the desktop Trinity APUs (e.g. A8-5600K) from AMD. It is not the fastest version featuring only 256 of the 384 shader cores. Due to the high clock speed, the performance is however slightly faster than the mobile Radeon HD 7660G that features all 384 shaders. The GPU cores are based on the VLIW4 architecture of the Radeon HD 6900 desktop series and doesn't offer dedicated graphics memory (it uses only the shared main memory). 

Trinity got its name due to the fact that it consists out of three different architecture parts. The CPU cores are based on the Piledriver architecture (Bulldozer successor), the GPU cores on Northern Islands GPU cores (6900 desktop series architecture) and the video processing engine and multi-display connectivity from the new Southern Islands GPU architecture (HD 7900 series).

The integrated UVD3 video decoder (Avivo HD) allows the full decoding of Multi-View Codec (MVC), MPEG-4 Part 2 (DivX, xVid), MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 and Adobe Flash HD videos.

The performance of the Radeon HD 7560D differs from the used benchmark. In synthetic benchmarks like 3DMark 11 it is slightly faster than it actual games. In our tests it positioned itself slightly above a Radeon HD 7660G and therefore the performance is still better than the average Intel HD Graphics 4000 in the Ivy Bridge Quad-Core models. Many games of 2012/2013 can be played fluently in low or medium settings.

The shaders of the chip can also be used for general computing using OpenCL and DirectCompute 11.

AMD Radeon HD 7480D

The AMD Radeon HD 7480D or HD7480D is a desktop processor graphics card in the Trinity APUs from AMD. It is a cut down version with only 128 of the 384 shaders and integrated in the A4 series APUs. It is based on the VLIW4 architecture of the Radeon HD 6900 series desktop graphics card and doesn't offer a dedicated graphics memory.

Trinity got its name due to the fact that it consists out of three different architecture parts. The CPU cores are based on the Piledriver architecture (Bulldozer successor), the GPU cores on Northern Islands GPU cores (HD 6900 desktop series) and the video processing engine and multi-display connectivity from the new Southern Islands GPU architecture (HD 7900 series).

The integrated UVD3 video decoder (Avivo HD) allows the full decoding of Multi-View Codec (MVC), MPEG-4 Part 2 (DivX, xVid), MPEG-4 AVC/H.264 and Adobe Flash HD videos. According to a reader, 2D Blu-Ray playback works fine, but 3D playback is stuttering.

The performance in games is usually compareable to a Intel HD Graphics 4000 GPU. However, due to the slow CPU part, many games may be CPU bound and therefore offer lower frame rates (e.g. in low resolution and detail settings).