NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 DDR4 vs Intel HD Graphics 5500

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 DDR4 and Intel HD Graphics 5500 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), 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 5500

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 DDR4

Videocard is newer: launch date 3 year(s) 6 month(s) later
11.5x more core clock speed: 1152 MHz vs 100 MHz
Around 45% higher boost clock speed: 1379 MHz vs 950 MHz
16x more pipelines: 384 vs 24
2.7x better performance in 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score: 629 vs 233

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	12 March 2018 vs 5 September 2014
Core clock speed	1152 MHz vs 100 MHz
Boost clock speed	1379 MHz vs 950 MHz
Pipelines	384 vs 24
Benchmarks
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	629 vs 233

Reasons to consider the Intel HD Graphics 5500

Around 33% lower typical power consumption: 15 Watt vs 20 Watt

Thermal Design Power (TDP)	15 Watt vs 20 Watt

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 DDR4
GPU 2: Intel HD Graphics 5500

3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score

GPU 1

GPU 2

629

233

Name	NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 DDR4	Intel HD Graphics 5500
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	629	233
PassMark - G3D Mark		594
PassMark - G2D Mark		230
Geekbench - OpenCL		2262
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		3.422
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		195.811
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		781
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		754
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		1397
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		781
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		754
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		1397

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 DDR4	Intel HD Graphics 5500
Essentials
Architecture	Pascal	Generation 8.0
Code name	GP108	Broadwell GT2
Launch date	12 March 2018	5 September 2014
Launch price (MSRP)	$79
Place in performance rating	1476	1478
Type	Desktop	Laptop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1379 MHz	950 MHz
Core clock speed	1152 MHz	100 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	1,300 million
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x HDMI	No outputs
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x4	PCIe 2.0 x1
Length	145 mm
Supplementary power connectors	None
API support
DirectX	12.0 (12_1)	12.0 (11_1)
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
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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