NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 vs NVIDIA GeForce 9500 GT, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 129.95
$ 109.00
$ 20.95 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

695 points
7622% significantly better overall score
9 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

15 FPS
14 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate
1 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

10 FPS
10 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate
0 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

10 FPS
10 FPS significantly higher City frame rate
0 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

8 FPS
8 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate
0 FPS

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Specifications

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

64 Bit
128 Bit
100% significantly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

48.06 GB/s
50% significantly higher memory bandwidth
32 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

30 W
66% significantly lower TDP
50 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

23.49 Gigapixels/s
389% significantly higher pixel rate
4.8 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

35.23 Gigatexels/s
266% significantly higher texture rate
9.6 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

384
1100% significantly more shading units
32

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

24
49% significantly more texture mapping units
16

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

16
100% significantly more render output processors
8

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

291st of 586
569th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 May
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Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5
GDDR3

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
11.1

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6
3.3

GeForce GT 1030 vs GeForce 9500 GT comparison

In our benchmarks, the GeForce GT 1030 beats the GeForce 9500 GT in gaming performance.

In addition, the GeForce GT 1030 has a significantly lower TDP at 30 W when compared to the GeForce 9500 GT at 50 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce GT 1030 over the GeForce 9500 GT.

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