NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 vs NVIDIA GeForce MX230

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 vs NVIDIA GeForce MX230, 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

102% significantly better overall score

343 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

15 FPS

7 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

8 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

10 FPS

5 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

5 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

10 FPS

4 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

6 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

8 FPS

4 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

4 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

72.05 points

90% significantly higher Blender score

37.75 points

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

10307 points

49% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

6914 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

10713 points

49% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

7146 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

10201 points

43% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

7117 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

9924 points

45% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

6822 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

9415 points

48% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

6359 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1228 MHz

1519 MHz

23% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1468 MHz

1531 MHz

4% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

64 Bit

Identical

64 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

48.06 GB/s

Identical

48.06 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

30 W

10 W

200% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

23.49 Gigapixels/s

24.5 Gigapixels/s

4% slightly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

35.23 Gigatexels/s

43% significantly higher texture rate

24.5 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

384

49% significantly more shading units

256

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

49% 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

361st of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 May

2019 February

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

GeForce GT 1030 vs GeForce MX230 comparison

For gaming, the GeForce GT 1030 graphics card is better than the GeForce MX230 in our tests.

The GeForce MX230 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 MX230 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 MX230 has a significantly lower TDP at 10 W when compared to the GeForce GT 1030 at 30 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce GT 1030 is better than the GeForce MX230.