NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980M 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

1650 points

137% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

15 FPS

32 FPS

17 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

10 FPS

25 FPS

15 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

10 FPS

22 FPS

12 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

8 FPS

21 FPS

13 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

1087 points

2939 points

170% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

72.05 points

264.38 points

266% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

10307 points

21520 points

108% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

10713 points

23785 points

122% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

10201 points

26093 points

155% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

9924 points

24516 points

147% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

9415 points

23881 points

153% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1228 MHz

18% slightly higher core clock speed

1038 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1468 MHz

30% slightly higher boost clock speed

1127 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

160.4 GB/s

233% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

30 W

233% significantly lower TDP

100 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

23.49 Gigapixels/s

72.13 Gigapixels/s

207% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

35.23 Gigatexels/s

108.2 Gigatexels/s

207% 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

300% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

300% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

292nd of 586

229th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 May

2014 October

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 980M specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the GeForce GTX 980M beats the GeForce GT 1030 in gaming performance.

Our database shows that the GeForce GT 1030 has a slightly higher core clock speed. This is the frequency at which the graphics core is running at. While not necessarily an indicator of overall performance, this metric can be useful when comparing two GPUs based on the same architecture. In addition, the GeForce GT 1030 also has a slightly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

In addition, the GeForce GT 1030 has a significantly lower TDP at 30 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 980M at 100 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 GTX 980M over the GeForce GT 1030.