NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 4 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680

Price

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$ 129.95

$ 390.04 significantly less expensive

$ 519.99

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

695 points

1261 points

81% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

15 FPS

28 FPS

14 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

10 FPS

17 FPS

7 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

10 FPS

19 FPS

9 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

8 FPS

14 FPS

6 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

1087 points

2038 points

87% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

72.05 points

194.26 points

169% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

10307 points

13627 points

32% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

4637 points

8002 points

72% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

10713 points

16368 points

52% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

10201 points

16340 points

60% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

4637 points

7720 points

66% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

9924 points

18409 points

85% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

9415 points

18023 points

91% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1228 MHz

22% slightly higher core clock speed

1006 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1468 MHz

38% slightly higher boost clock speed

1058 MHz

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

64 Bit

256 Bit

300% significantly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

48.06 GB/s

192.3 GB/s

300% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

30 W

550% significantly lower TDP

195 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

23.49 Gigapixels/s

33.86 Gigapixels/s

44% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

35.23 Gigatexels/s

135.4 Gigatexels/s

284% significantly higher texture rate

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

384

1536

300% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

128

433% 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

291st of 586

246th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 May

2012 March

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 680 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce GTX 680 GPU is faster than the GeForce GT 1030 in gaming.

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 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 GT 1030 has a significantly lower TDP at 30 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 680 at 195 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce GTX 680 is better than the GeForce GT 1030.