NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Max-Q vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Max-Q 4 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030, 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

1057 points

52% significantly better overall score

695 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

24 FPS

9 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

15 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

16 FPS

6 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

10 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

16 FPS

6 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

10 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

12 FPS

3 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

8 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

2108 points

93% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

1087 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

169.72 points

135% significantly higher Blender score

72.05 points

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

15058 points

46% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

10307 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

17020 points

58% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

10713 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

16857 points

65% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

10201 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

16153 points

62% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

9924 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

17923 points

90% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

9415 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

999 MHz

1228 MHz

22% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1139 MHz

1468 MHz

28% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

128 Bit

100% significantly larger memory bus width

64 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

112.1 GB/s

133% significantly higher memory bandwidth

48.06 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

75 W

30 W

150% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

18.22 Gigapixels/s

23.49 Gigapixels/s

28% slightly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

45.56 Gigatexels/s

29% slightly higher texture rate

35.23 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

640

66% significantly more shading units

384

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

66% 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

260th of 586

292nd of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2018 January

2017 May

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 GTX 1050 Max-Q vs GeForce GT 1030 comparison

In our benchmarks, the GeForce GTX 1050 Max-Q beats the GeForce GT 1030 in gaming performance.

In our comparison, the GeForce GT 1030 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 GT 1030 also has a slightly higher boost clock speed. This is a frequency that can be reached if the GPU is cooled sufficiently and has enough power.

In addition, the GeForce GT 1030 has a significantly lower TDP at 30 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 1050 Max-Q at 75 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 GTX 1050 Max-Q is better than the GeForce GT 1030.