NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 850M

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 850M, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

695 points
10% slightly better overall score
630 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

15 FPS
3 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate
12 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

10 FPS
0 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate
10 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

10 FPS
1 FPS slightly higher City frame rate
9 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

8 FPS
9 FPS
0 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

1087 points
11% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score
979 points
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

72.05 points
104.65 points
45% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

10307 points
7% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score
9545 points
Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

10713 points
6% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
10030 points
Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

10201 points
8% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score
9370 points
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

9924 points
10013 points
0.90% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

9415 points
3% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score
9122 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
50% significantly higher memory bandwidth
32.03 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

30 W
49% significantly lower TDP
45 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

23.49 Gigapixels/s
62% significantly higher pixel rate
14.43 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

35.23 Gigatexels/s
36.08 Gigatexels/s
2% slightly higher texture rate

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

384
640
66% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

24
40
66% significantly 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
304th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 May
2014 March

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5
DDR3

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 GTX 850M comparison

For gaming, the GeForce GT 1030 graphics card is better than the GeForce GTX 850M in our tests.

In addition, the GeForce GT 1030 has a significantly lower TDP at 30 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 850M at 45 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce GT 1030 is faster than the GeForce GTX 850M.

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