Intel HD 5500 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030

Compare Intel HD 5500 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

93 points

695 points

647% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

3 FPS

15 FPS

12 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

1 FPS

10 FPS

9 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

2 FPS

10 FPS

8 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

0 FPS

8 FPS

8 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

233 points

1087 points

366% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

2564 points

10713 points

317% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

2804 points

10201 points

263% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

2265 points

9924 points

338% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

3437 points

9415 points

173% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

300 MHz

1228 MHz

309% significantly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

850 MHz

1468 MHz

72% significantly higher boost clock speed

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

15 W

100% significantly lower TDP

30 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

2.55 Gigapixels/s

23.49 Gigapixels/s

821% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

20.4 Gigatexels/s

35.23 Gigatexels/s

72% significantly higher texture rate

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

192

384

100% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

Identical

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

433% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

507th of 586

291st of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

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

4.4

4.6

HD 5500 vs GeForce GT 1030 specs and performance

In our benchmarks, the GeForce GT 1030 beats the HD 5500 in gaming performance.

In our comparison, the GeForce GT 1030 has a significantly 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 significantly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

In addition, the HD 5500 has a significantly lower TDP at 15 W when compared to the GeForce GT 1030 at 30 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 GT 1030 over the HD 5500.