NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 32 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Price

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$ 129.95
$ 2635.78 significantly less expensive
$ 2765.73

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

695 points
42789 points
6056% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

15 FPS
1019 FPS
1005 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

10 FPS
503 FPS
493 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

10 FPS
740 FPS
730 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

8 FPS
425 FPS
417 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

1087 points
14480 points
1232% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

72.05 points
14992.38 points
20709% significantly higher Blender score
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

9924 points
383325 points
3762% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

9415 points
380401 points
3940% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1228 MHz
2017 MHz
64% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1468 MHz
2407 MHz
63% significantly higher boost clock speed

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

64 Bit
512 Bit
700% significantly larger memory bus width

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

30 W
1816% significantly lower TDP
575 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

23.49 Gigapixels/s
423.6 Gigapixels/s
1703% significantly higher pixel rate

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

384
21760
5566% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

24
680
2733% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

16
176
1000% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

291st of 586
1st of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 May
2025 January

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5
GDDR7

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6
4.6

GeForce GT 1030 vs GeForce RTX 5090 specs and performance

For gaming, the GeForce RTX 5090 graphics card is better than the GeForce GT 1030 in our tests.

Our database shows that the GeForce RTX 5090 has a significantly 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 RTX 5090 also has a significantly 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 5090 at 575 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 RTX 5090 over the GeForce GT 1030.

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