NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 720M

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 720M, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce GT 720M

Price

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$ 129.95

$ 54.90

$ 75.05 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

695 points

474% significantly better overall score

121 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

15 FPS

12 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

3 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

10 FPS

8 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

2 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

10 FPS

8 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

2 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

8 FPS

7 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

1 FPS

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Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

10713 points

421% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

2056 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

9924 points

280% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

2610 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1228 MHz

70% significantly higher core clock speed

719 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1468 MHz

93% significantly higher boost clock speed

758 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

275% significantly higher memory bandwidth

12.8 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

30 W

10% slightly lower TDP

33 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

23.49 Gigapixels/s

674% significantly higher pixel rate

3.03 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

35.23 Gigatexels/s

190% significantly higher texture rate

12.13 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

384

100% significantly more shading units

192

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

49% significantly more texture mapping units

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

488th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 May

2013 April

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 GT 720M comparison

In our benchmarks, the GeForce GT 1030 beats the GeForce GT 720M in gaming performance.

The GeForce GT 1030 has a significantly 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 significantly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

In addition, the GeForce GT 1030 has a slightly lower TDP at 30 W when compared to the GeForce GT 720M at 33 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 GT 720M.