NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 vs NVIDIA GeForce 940MX

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 vs NVIDIA GeForce 940MX, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

695 points

127% significantly better overall score

306 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

15 FPS

7 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

8 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

10 FPS

4 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

6 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

10 FPS

5 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

5 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

8 FPS

3 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

5 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

1087 points

79% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

604 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

72.05 points

22% slightly higher Blender score

58.68 points

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

10307 points

61% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

6363 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

10713 points

62% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

6582 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

10201 points

75% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

5823 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

9924 points

54% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

6410 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

9415 points

65% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

5702 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1228 MHz

22% slightly higher core clock speed

1004 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1468 MHz

18% slightly higher boost clock speed

1242 MHz

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

64 Bit

Identical

64 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

48.06 GB/s

200% significantly higher memory bandwidth

16.02 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

30 W

23 W

30% slightly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

23.49 Gigapixels/s

136% significantly higher pixel rate

9.94 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

35.23 Gigatexels/s

18% slightly higher texture rate

29.81 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

384

Identical

384

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

Identical

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

100% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

292nd of 586

376th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 May

2016 June

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

DDR3

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

GeForce GT 1030 vs GeForce 940MX specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce GT 1030 GPU is faster than the GeForce 940MX in gaming.

The GeForce GT 1030 has a slightly higher core clock speed. This is the frequency at which the graphics core is running at. While not necessarily an indicator of overall performance, this metric can be useful when comparing two GPUs based on the same architecture. 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 940MX has a slightly lower TDP at 23 W when compared to the GeForce GT 1030 at 30 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce GT 1030 is faster than the GeForce 940MX.