NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 630

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 2 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 630, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 169.99
$ 149.95
$ 20.04 slightly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

1159 points
857% significantly better overall score
121 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

26 FPS
23 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate
3 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

18 FPS
16 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate
2 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

18 FPS
16 FPS significantly higher City frame rate
2 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

14 FPS
14 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate
1 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

17206 points
642% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score
2317 points
Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

7823 points
531% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Metal) score
1239 points
Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

18573 points
599% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
2654 points
Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

17953 points
604% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score
2548 points
Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

7823 points
487% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score
1332 points
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

17967 points
562% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
2712 points
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

17163 points
549% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score
2641 points

Specifications

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

128 Bit
Identical
128 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

112.1 GB/s
289% significantly higher memory bandwidth
28.8 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

75 W
65 W
15% slightly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

46.56 Gigapixels/s
1337% significantly higher pixel rate
3.24 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

58.2 Gigatexels/s
349% significantly higher texture rate
12.96 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

640
566% significantly more shading units
96

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

40
150% significantly more texture mapping units
16

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

32
700% significantly more render output processors
4

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

254th of 586
486th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 October
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Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5
DDR3

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5
4.6

GeForce GTX 1050 vs GeForce GT 630 specs and performance

For gaming, the GeForce GTX 1050 graphics card is better than the GeForce GT 630 in our tests.

In addition, the GeForce GT 630 has a slightly lower TDP at 65 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 1050 at 75 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 GTX 1050 over the GeForce GT 630.

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