NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050 8 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3050

Price

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$ 129.95

$ 100.04 significantly less expensive

$ 229.99

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

695 points

3468 points

398% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

15 FPS

82 FPS

68 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

10 FPS

41 FPS

31 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

10 FPS

59 FPS

49 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

8 FPS

31 FPS

23 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

1087 points

6224 points

472% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

72.05 points

1484.67 points

1960% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

10307 points

72998 points

608% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

10713 points

71667 points

568% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

10201 points

56109 points

450% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

9924 points

63483 points

539% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

9415 points

62406 points

562% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1228 MHz

1552 MHz

26% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1468 MHz

1777 MHz

21% slightly higher boost clock speed

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

224 GB/s

366% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

30 W

333% significantly lower TDP

130 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

23.49 Gigapixels/s

56.86 Gigapixels/s

142% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

35.23 Gigatexels/s

142.2 Gigatexels/s

303% significantly higher texture rate

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

384

2560

566% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

233% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

100% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

291st of 586

139th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 May

2022 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

GeForce GT 1030 vs GeForce RTX 3050 comparison

In our benchmarks, the GeForce RTX 3050 beats the GeForce GT 1030 in gaming performance.

In our comparison, the GeForce RTX 3050 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 RTX 3050 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 RTX 3050 at 130 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 terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce RTX 3050 is better than the GeForce GT 1030.