NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 vs NVIDIA GeForce MX250

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 vs NVIDIA GeForce MX250, 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

8% slightly better overall score

640 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

15 FPS

1 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

14 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

0 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

10 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

8 FPS

0 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

8 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

1087 points

4% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score

1039 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

72.05 points

89.74 points

24% slightly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

10307 points

5% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

9734 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

10713 points

5% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

10197 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

10201 points

2% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

9939 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

9924 points

6% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

9326 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

9415 points

2% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

9178 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1228 MHz

31% slightly higher core clock speed

937 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1468 MHz

41% slightly higher boost clock speed

1038 MHz

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

41% slightly higher pixel rate

16.61 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

35.23 Gigatexels/s

41% slightly higher texture rate

24.91 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

384

Identical

384

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

Identical

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

292nd of 586

302nd 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 MX250 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the GeForce GT 1030 beats the GeForce MX250 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 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 MX250 has a significantly lower TDP at 10 W when compared to the GeForce GT 1030 at 30 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce GT 1030 over the GeForce MX250.