NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 2 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650

Price

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$ 129.95

$ 98.48

$ 31.47 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

695 points

142% significantly better overall score

287 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

15 FPS

8 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

7 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

10 FPS

6 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

4 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

5 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

3 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

1087 points

99% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

546 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

72.05 points

47% significantly higher Blender score

48.76 points

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

10307 points

197% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

3469 points

Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

4637 points

89% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

2446 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

10713 points

127% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

4712 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

10201 points

137% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

4293 points

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

4637 points

93% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

2400 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

9924 points

118% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

4552 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

9415 points

96% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

4783 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1228 MHz

16% slightly higher core clock speed

1058 MHz

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 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

177% significantly higher pixel rate

8.46 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

35.23 Gigatexels/s

4% slightly higher texture rate

33.86 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

384

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384

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

33% slightly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

291st of 586

384th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

11.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

4.5

GeForce GT 1030 vs GeForce GTX 650 comparison

In our benchmarks, the GeForce GT 1030 beats the GeForce GTX 650 in gaming performance.

In our comparison, the GeForce GT 1030 has a slightly higher core clock speed. The core clock speed (or base speed) is the frequency at which the GPU core runs. This metric makes sense when comparing GPUs of a similar architecture or generation.

In addition, the GeForce GT 1030 has a significantly lower TDP at 30 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 650 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 conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce GT 1030 over the GeForce GTX 650.