NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 740

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 740, 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
$ 220.00 significantly less expensive
$ 349.95

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

695 points
226% significantly better overall score
213 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

15 FPS
10 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate
5 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

10 FPS
7 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate
3 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

10 FPS
6 FPS significantly higher City frame rate
4 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

8 FPS
6 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate
2 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

72.05 points
22% slightly higher Blender score
58.69 points
Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

10307 points
212% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score
3302 points
Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

4637 points
99% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Metal) score
2320 points
Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

10713 points
152% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
4243 points
Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

10201 points
142% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score
4201 points
Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

4637 points
100% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score
2307 points
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

9924 points
135% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
4221 points
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

9415 points
119% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score
4286 points

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
80.19 GB/s
66% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

30 W
113% significantly lower TDP
64 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

23.49 Gigapixels/s
195% significantly higher pixel rate
7.94 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

35.23 Gigatexels/s
10% slightly higher texture rate
31.78 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

384
Identical
384

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

24
32
33% slightly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

16
Identical
16

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

291st of 586
420th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 May
2015 April

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5
GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6
4.6

GeForce GT 1030 vs GeForce GT 740 comparison

For gaming, the GeForce GT 1030 graphics card is better than the GeForce GT 740 in our tests.

In addition, the GeForce GT 1030 has a significantly lower TDP at 30 W when compared to the GeForce GT 740 at 64 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce GT 1030 is better than the GeForce GT 740.

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