NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030

Compare NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 8 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030, 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

$ 559.30
$ 129.95
$ 429.35 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

8113 points
1067% significantly better overall score
695 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

197 FPS
182 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate
15 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

96 FPS
86 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate
10 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

140 FPS
130 FPS significantly higher City frame rate
10 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

77 FPS
68 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate
8 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

13651 points
1155% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score
1087 points
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

3380.77 points
4592% significantly higher Blender score
72.05 points
Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

149734 points
1352% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score
10307 points
Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

135064 points
1160% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
10713 points
Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

99979 points
880% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score
10201 points
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

128209 points
1191% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
9924 points
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

121057 points
1185% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score
9415 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1500 MHz
22% slightly higher core clock speed
1228 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1725 MHz
17% slightly higher boost clock speed
1468 MHz

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit
300% significantly larger memory bus width
64 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

448 GB/s
832% significantly higher memory bandwidth
48.06 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

220 W
30 W
633% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

165.6 Gigapixels/s
604% significantly higher pixel rate
23.49 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

317.4 Gigatexels/s
800% significantly higher texture rate
35.23 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

5888
1433% significantly more shading units
384

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

184
666% significantly more texture mapping units
24

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

96
499% significantly more render output processors
16

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

53rd of 586
291st of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2020 September
2017 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR6
GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6
4.6

GeForce RTX 3070 vs GeForce GT 1030 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce RTX 3070 GPU is faster than the GeForce GT 1030 in gaming.

Our database shows that the GeForce RTX 3070 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 3070 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 3070 at 220 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 RTX 3070 over the GeForce GT 1030.

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