NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 DDR4 vs Intel HD Graphics 520

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 DDR4 and Intel HD Graphics 520 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 520

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 DDR4

Videocard is newer: launch date 2 year(s) 6 month(s) later
3.8x more core clock speed: 1152 MHz vs 300 MHz
Around 31% higher boost clock speed: 1379 MHz vs 1050 MHz
16x more pipelines: 384 vs 24
Around 93% better performance in 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score: 629 vs 326

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	12 March 2018 vs 1 September 2015
Core clock speed	1152 MHz vs 300 MHz
Boost clock speed	1379 MHz vs 1050 MHz
Pipelines	384 vs 24
Benchmarks
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	629 vs 326

Reasons to consider the Intel HD Graphics 520

Around 33% lower typical power consumption: 15 Watt vs 20 Watt
16x more maximum memory size: 32 GB vs 2 GB

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	15 Watt vs 20 Watt
Maximum memory size	32 GB vs 2 GB

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 DDR4
GPU 2: Intel HD Graphics 520

3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score

GPU 1

GPU 2

629

326

Name	NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 DDR4	Intel HD Graphics 520
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	629	326
PassMark - G3D Mark		864
PassMark - G2D Mark		209
Geekbench - OpenCL		3993
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		21.852
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		143.083
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		1.243
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		12.958
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		28.182
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		951
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		1462
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		3337
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		951
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		1462
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		3337

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 DDR4	Intel HD Graphics 520
Essentials
Architecture	Pascal	Generation 9.0
Code name	GP108	Skylake GT2
Launch date	12 March 2018	1 September 2015
Launch price (MSRP)	$79
Place in performance rating	1476	1381
Type	Desktop	Laptop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1379 MHz	1050 MHz
Core clock speed	1152 MHz	300 MHz
Floating-point performance	1,059 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm	14 nm
Pipelines	384	24
Texture fill rate	33.1 GTexel / s
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	20 Watt	15 Watt
Transistor count	1,800 million	189 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x HDMI	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x4	PCIe 3.0 x1
Length	145 mm
Supplementary power connectors	None
API support
DirectX	12.0 (12_1)	12.0 (12_1)
OpenGL	4.6	4.5
Vulkan
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	32 GB
Memory bandwidth	16.8 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 Bit	64 / 128 Bit
Memory clock speed	2100 MHz
Memory type	DDR4	DDR3L / LPDDR3 / DDR4
Shared memory		1
Technologies
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