NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 DDR4 vs Intel UHD Graphics 630

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 DDR4 and Intel UHD Graphics 630 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 UHD Graphics 630

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 DDR4

Videocard is newer: launch date 6 month(s) later
3.3x more core clock speed: 1152 MHz vs 350 MHz
Around 15% higher boost clock speed: 1379 MHz vs 1200 MHz
Around 15% higher texture fill rate: 33.1 GTexel / s vs 28.8 GTexel / s
16x more pipelines: 384 vs 24
2.3x better floating-point performance: 1,059 gflops vs 460.8 gflops
9.3x better performance in 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score: 629 vs 68

Specifications (specs)
Launch date	12 March 2018 vs 1 September 2017
Core clock speed	1152 MHz vs 350 MHz
Boost clock speed	1379 MHz vs 1200 MHz
Texture fill rate	33.1 GTexel / s vs 28.8 GTexel / s
Pipelines	384 vs 24
Floating-point performance	1,059 gflops vs 460.8 gflops
Benchmarks
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	629 vs 68

Reasons to consider the Intel UHD Graphics 630

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 UHD Graphics 630

3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score

GPU 1

GPU 2

629

Name	NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 DDR4	Intel UHD Graphics 630
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	629	68
PassMark - G3D Mark		1237
PassMark - G2D Mark		299
Geekbench - OpenCL		4657
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		27.517
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		354.254
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		1.807
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		20.323
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		29.327
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		1870
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		1596
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		3309
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		1870
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		1596
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		3309

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 DDR4	Intel UHD Graphics 630
Essentials
Architecture	Pascal	Generation 9.5
Code name	GP108	Coffee Lake GT2
Launch date	12 March 2018	1 September 2017
Launch price (MSRP)	$79
Place in performance rating	1476	1234
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1379 MHz	1200 MHz
Core clock speed	1152 MHz	350 MHz
Floating-point performance	1,059 gflops	460.8 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm	14 nm
Pipelines	384	24
Texture fill rate	33.1 GTexel / s	28.8 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	4.6
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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