NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 DDR4 vs Intel HD Graphics 4600

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 DDR4 and Intel HD Graphics 4600 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score, PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 DDR4

Intel HD Graphics 4600

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 DDR4

Videocard is newer: launch date 4 year(s) 9 month(s) later
2.9x more core clock speed: 1152 MHz vs 400 MHz
Around 10% higher boost clock speed: 1379 MHz vs 1250 MHz
6.6x more texture fill rate: 33.1 GTexel / s vs 5 GTexel / s
19.2x more pipelines: 384 vs 20
21.2x better floating-point performance: 1,059 gflops vs 50 gflops
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 14 nm vs 22 nm
2.3x lower typical power consumption: 20 Watt vs 45 Watt
3.2x better performance in 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score: 629 vs 194

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	12 March 2018 vs 3 June 2013
Core clock speed	1152 MHz vs 400 MHz
Boost clock speed	1379 MHz vs 1250 MHz
Texture fill rate	33.1 GTexel / s vs 5 GTexel / s
Pipelines	384 vs 20
Floating-point performance	1,059 gflops vs 50 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm vs 22 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	20 Watt vs 45 Watt
Benchmarks
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	629 vs 194

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 DDR4
GPU 2: Intel HD Graphics 4600

3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score

GPU 1

GPU 2

629

194

Name	NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 DDR4	Intel HD Graphics 4600
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	629	194
PassMark - G3D Mark		630
PassMark - G2D Mark		314
Geekbench - OpenCL		3210
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		8.844
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		171.17
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		1.115
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		10.385
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		12.361
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		988
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		1702
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		2808
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		988
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		1702
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		2808

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 DDR4	Intel HD Graphics 4600
Essentials
Architecture	Pascal	Generation 7.5
Code name	GP108	Haswell GT2
Launch date	12 March 2018	3 June 2013
Launch price (MSRP)	$79
Place in performance rating	1476	1359
Type	Desktop	Laptop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1379 MHz	1250 MHz
Core clock speed	1152 MHz	400 MHz
Floating-point performance	1,059 gflops	50 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm	22 nm
Pipelines	384	20
Texture fill rate	33.1 GTexel / s	5 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	20 Watt	45 Watt
Transistor count	1,800 million	392 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x HDMI	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x4	PCIe 1.0 x16
Length	145 mm
Supplementary power connectors	None
API support
DirectX	12.0 (12_1)	12.0 (11_1)
OpenGL	4.6	4.3
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB
Memory bandwidth	16.8 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 Bit	64 / 128 Bit
Memory clock speed	2100 MHz
Memory type	DDR4
Shared memory		1
Technologies
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