NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M 4 GB, 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

17% slightly better overall score

593 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

15 FPS

2 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

13 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

10 FPS

11 FPS

0 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

10 FPS

0 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

10 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

8 FPS

9 FPS

1 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

1087 points

1232 points

13% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

72.05 points

139.59 points

93% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

10307 points

11818 points

14% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

10713 points

12257 points

14% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

10201 points

10582 points

3% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

9924 points

11578 points

16% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

9415 points

9535 points

1% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1228 MHz

11% slightly higher core clock speed

1097 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1468 MHz

24% slightly higher boost clock speed

1176 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

80.19 GB/s

66% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

30 W

116% significantly lower TDP

65 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

23.49 Gigapixels/s

24% slightly higher pixel rate

18.82 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

35.23 Gigatexels/s

47.04 Gigatexels/s

33% 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

66% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

292nd of 586

310th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 May

2015 March

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

4.5

GeForce GT 1030 vs GeForce GTX 960M comparison

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce GT 1030 GPU is faster than the GeForce GTX 960M 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. The boost clock speed is the frequency that the GPU core can reach if the temperature is low enough. The allows for higher performance in certain scenarios.

In addition, the GeForce GT 1030 has a significantly lower TDP at 30 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 960M at 65 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 GTX 960M.