Average Bench: 13.6% (260th of 714)

Based on 185,384 user benchmarks.  Device: 10DE 1D01 Model: NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030

Terrible average bench

The Nvidia GT 1030 averaged 86.3% lower than the peak scores attained by the group leaders. This isn't a great result which indicates that there are much faster alternatives on the comparison list.

Strengths

Avg. Locally-deformable PRT (Bat) 17.1fps
Avg. Force Splatted Flocking (Swarm) 15.8fps

Excellent consistency

The range of scores (95th - 5th percentile) for the Nvidia GT 1030 is just 3.52%. This is an extremely narrow range which indicates that the Nvidia GT 1030 performs superbly consistently under varying real world conditions.

Weaknesses

Avg. High dynamic range lighting (Teapot) 16.4fps
Avg. Parallax occlusion mapping (Stones) 17.1fps
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Average Bench

(Based on 185,384 samples)
Min Avg Max
14.5 Lighting 17.1 18.6
9 Reflection 16.4 21.4
13.5 Parallax 17.1 19.7
13.9% 16.9 fps
Min Avg Max
5.3 MRender 13.4 16
16.1 Gravity 18.2 19.5
13.7 Splatting 15.8 17.5
13% 15.8 fps
User Benchmarks Bench3D DX93D DX103D DX11
The fastest GPU (mainstream) averages a speed of 100%
Asus(1043 85F4) 2GB
CLim: 1911 MHz, MLim: 1502 MHz, Ram: 2GB, Driver: 536.23
Lighting 17.5
Reflection 22.3
Parallax 17.9
14% 19.2 fps
MRender 15.5
Gravity 18.3
Splatting 16.1
14% 16.6 fps
Asus(1043 86DC) 2GB
CLim: 1911 MHz, MLim: 1502 MHz, Ram: 2GB, Driver: 536.23
Lighting 16.7
Reflection 17.7
Parallax 18.2
14% 17.5 fps
MRender 15.9
Gravity 19.1
Splatting 16.8
14% 17.3 fps
Nvidia(10DE 11C7) 2GB
CLim: 1911 MHz, MLim: 1502 MHz, Ram: 2GB, Driver: 536.23
Lighting 16.2
Reflection 16.9
Parallax 8.9
13% 14 fps
MRender 14.4
Gravity 17.2
Splatting 15.4
13% 15.7 fps
Nvidia(10DE 1D01) 2GB
CLim: 1911 MHz, MLim: 525 MHz, Ram: 2GB, Driver: 546.33
Lighting 15.5
Reflection 18
Parallax 14.6
13% 16 fps
MRender 5.6
Gravity 16.8
Splatting 15.4
11% 12.6 fps
Nvidia(10DE 11E6) ≥ 4GB
CLim: 1911 MHz, MLim: 525 MHz, Ram: 4GB, Driver: 551.86
Lighting 15.2
Reflection 9.1
Parallax 14
12% 12.8 fps
MRender 5.4
Gravity 17
Splatting 15.4
11% 12.6 fps
Gigabyte(1458 3799) 2GB
CLim: 1911 MHz, MLim: 525 MHz, Ram: 2GB, Driver: 536.23
Lighting 14.7
Reflection 9.8
Parallax 14.4
12% 13 fps
MRender 5.6
Gravity 16.8
Splatting 15.6
11% 12.7 fps
MSI(1462 8C98) 2GB
CLim: 1949 MHz, MLim: 525 MHz, Ram: 2GB, Driver: 471.41
Lighting 14.7
Reflection 9.2
Parallax 14.5
12% 12.8 fps
MRender 5.2
Gravity 16.9
Splatting 15.3
11% 12.5 fps
Asus(1043 85F4) 2GB
CLim: 1911 MHz, MLim: 1502 MHz, Ram: 2GB, Driver: 552.12
Lighting 3.9
Reflection 14.8
Parallax 15.7
3% 11.5 fps
MRender 3.3
Gravity 1.2
Splatting 0.9
1% 1.8 fps
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Hardware Id Samples Bench ± SD Model / Price
MSI(1462 8C98) 20% 13% ± 1%
Gigabyte(1458 375C) 13% 14% ± 1%
Asus(1043 85F4) 9% 14% ± 1%
Asus(1043 85F5) 9% 14% ± 1%
Gigabyte(1458 3767) 8% 14% ± 0%
Zotac(19DA 2476) 7% 14% ± 1%
Gigabyte(1458 3799) 5% 12% ± 0%
Nvidia(10DE 1D01) 4% 13% ± 1%
Nvidia(10DE 121E) 3% 14% ± 1%
Gigabyte(1458 375D) 3% 14% ± 1%
Asus(1043 8621) 3% 14% ± 1%
Nvidia(10DE 11E6) 2% 12% ± 0%
Nvidia(10DE 11C7) 2% 14% ± 1%
PNY(196E 11C8) 2% 12% ± 0%
PNY(196E 11C7) 2% 14% ± 1%
Device(7377 0000) 1% 14% ± 0%
Asus(1043 86DC) 1% 13% ± 1%
HP(103C 8442) 1% 13% ± 2%
EVGA(3842 6335) 1% 14% ± 1%
EVGA(3842 6336) 1% 15% ± 1%
Asus(1043 86E1) 1% 14% ± 0%
EVGA(3842 6339) 0% 15% ± 0%
EVGA(3842 6333) 0% 14% ± 0%
EVGA(3842 6332) 0% 14% ± 0%
Zotac(19DA 1476) 0% 15% ± 0%
Dell(1028 11C7) 0% 14% ± 0%
Device(1B4C 11C7) 0% 13% ± 0%
Nvidia(10DE 0000) 0% 14% ± 0%
Sapphire(174B 1476) 0% 14% ± 0%
Asus(1043 8646) 0% 11% ± 0%
Asus(1043 8746) 0% 14% ± 0%
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Gaming 15%
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Desktop
Desktop 68%
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Workstation
Workstation 13%
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Motherboard: Dell OptiPlex 7010

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Excellent

9 days ago.

it can barely run any games even on lowest settings


Good

1 month ago.

pretty for budget low profile builds, i could play league at over 200 fps


Average

1 month ago.

i use and i can do pretty much anything


Good

20 days ago.

It doesn't consume much and delivers good performance for the price.


Good

11 days ago.

fair GPU, doesn't hold much strength to It but will get you a fairly playable game experience at a low quality usually


Poor

1 month ago.

its realy bad and i cant run most newer games


Excellent

14 months ago.

The Reason is NVIDIA is the inventer of Gpu.And Also the owner.for this i like nVidia most


Excellent

26 days ago.

best budget gaming graphics card


Good

9 days ago.

very good card for entry-level gaming


Poor

1 month ago.

Cheapest solution for old PC with VP9 HW decode


Good

3 months ago.

better than my card and cheaper than the gtx 650 and its better than the gtx 650


Good

2 years ago.

My name is Donomeule and I love this card I can finally play minectaft in 480p with shaders


Good

12 months ago.

get a chinese card or something else, with today's prices it's not worth it


Good

23 months ago.

I still use my 650TI and it gets 11% better scoring even after 6 years of use =D


Excellent

21 months ago.

A good budget card for low power pc and SFF systems. 720p to 1080p low to medium settings on games


Average

9 months ago.

i have this graphic card and its awsome for cheap money


Excellent

16 months ago.

GTX 750 TI much stronger than him.


Good

21 months ago.

Capable of running modern games on 720p low considering its price its amazing


Good

3 years ago.

its really just an unreliable peice of junk


Average

4 years ago.

Can be excellent low power discrete GPU (although you get same performance as Vega 11 iGPU on AMD Ryzen 5 2400G and you're lucky to get GDDR5 ones) or weak little ants (if you got GT 1030 with DDR4 VRAM which makes VRAM itself a bottleneck for this GPU).


Poor

3 years ago.

Not bad, not decent. 30 watt usage is the only reason why this is 2 stars.


Good

3 years ago.

A cheap GPU for sure. GTX 1030 can work for most mid-games at low to med settings and this GPU has power consumption of 30W meaning it should technically work in almost any PC configuration. If you need more power, consider switching to a GTX 1050 instead along with a stronger PSU.


Average

5 years ago.

At least get the GDDR5 version, but it's more worth it to go with a Ryzen APU.


Good

4 years ago.

Decent budget card, although not for retail prices. Plays e-sport titles at 1080p low to medium settings just fine, and capable of AAA titles in 1080p low or 720p medium depending on title. Overall nothing wrong with this card, just watch out for the DDR4 variants which have have the performance of the GDDR5 ones.


Average

2 years ago.

GPU is okay. Gets okay performance on games but is generally only meant as a graphics accelerator rather than a gaming card. Exactly equivalent performance to the GPU found in the A15 Bionic chip from the Apple iPhone 13 series. Consumes only 30w of power which is very efficient!


Excellent

4 years ago.

This is good graphic card to play fortnite and more new and old game.


Average

8 months ago.

not bad at all


Good

4 years ago.

GDDR5 variants are quite competent for graphics! At least, within reasonable limits of its price point and capability. Hilariously wonderful for old 32-bit games.


Average

17 months ago.

it fits in anything but it sucks, if Nvidia could make a more refined card like this it would be great for making office pc's usable, but other than that this gpu's use case is quite limited nowadays.


Good

2 years ago.

A newer 750 Ti with somewhat lower power draw.


Average

6 years ago.

GT 1030 is slightly overpriced compared to a used gtx 750ti but performs really well in a lower wattage and is on par with the gtx 650 and sometimes gets on par with the GTX 750 non ti and is a step higher than its predecessor the gt 730 it is an okay card for its price and a very good card for htpc and low wattage budget build


Excellent

5 years ago.

There's not many cards like this in the market; for $60-90, you're getting a card that sucks only 30 watts, is easily overclockable, comes in low profile or passive cooled, requires no power connecters, and enough juice that it will run most games (esports? Not a problem) if you're not nitpicky. People buy this for compatibility & availability, not power; can't ask for more at this price point. Doesn't deserve the criticism.


Excellent

3 years ago.

This card wasn't made for gaming, the GT1030 is a normal desktop pc, not oriented for gaming, for that time was a good choice for budget gaming


Good

5 years ago.

Its good


Good

3 years ago.

It was my first "gaming card" i had a gt710 and then i bought this, it was like a whole new world for me.


Terrible

5 years ago.

because it was so bad it diddnt helped me drown out my sorrows of losing my family to a plane crash yesterday. A man hijacked a plane and crashed into our house, but I was at work because I work 130 hours a week.


Excellent

5 years ago.

best price/performance card out there


Excellent

6 years ago.

It's not for gaming, but it does its job perfectly well.


Excellent

4 years ago.

pretty gnarly yo


Poor

3 years ago.

Very weak even for its time.


Good

5 years ago.

I haven't got the card just yet but will put it to the test thats for sure. im buying it for a friend for 50 dollars is a great buy for it I mean you can actually game on a 50 dollar gpu and get decent frames... this card was meant for picture and video only light work loads video playback on cpus thats don't offer internal graphics.. so for this card to be able to pump out 80+ frames on some games then it gets two thumbs up from me..


Excellent

2 years ago.

Best mid range gpu for games like csgo , valorant , etc cheap and good


Good

2 years ago.

Not quite the best performing card, but it only consumes 30-watts of power, making it compatible with a huge variety of prebuilt systems that have very limited power supply watts. However, you should not spend more than $100 on this thing.


Excellent

6 years ago.

Muy barata y rinde en lo juegos.


Excellent

6 years ago.

Uses a very low 30watts of power and is enough to run the latest games on high setting at just above 30fps more powerful than any consol


Excellent

5 years ago.

its awesome and i can play fortnite at near high settings! and i can overclock it easily and make it so i can run fortnite at high settings! so its great for $110 and its normally $70 (but thanks to miners its $110) so it has great overclocking potential and is a great gpu!


Good

5 years ago.

Following the launch of his elder sisters, the last member of the Pascal architecture was released in mid '17 to fight back the AMD's RX550. With 384 cuda cores, 2GB of GDDR5, a bus width of 64 bits and a tiny 30W of power consumption, the GT1030 was the first "GT" card to be sold as a "gamer" card. It will surely struggle with AAA games in 1080p at high or ultra presets, but for MOBA titles, indie games, emulation and casual gaming it could excell on these tasks as it is still a little bit overkill for just media playing. The strenghs of this card are clearly its lower price tag (though the end of the mining craze has made the price to reach the 100$ frontier in some places, due to the shortage and the overprice of the rest of the cards, making this one most of the times the only way for the non-miner customers) and the really low power consumption. This make this card a good option for renewing old or second hand corporate PCs with low wattage power supplies and maybe for pairing with a Pentium Gold/i3-8100 while you wait for the rest of the grahic card market to lower the price without suffering with the Intel HD Graphics.


Excellent

5 years ago.

Great card for an easy upgrade to an older computer, was about $72 at purchase for a 10x performance improvement over integrated graphics.


Excellent

5 years ago.

10/10


Good

5 years ago.

super cheap yet still get close to 100fps with low settings on fortnite.


Excellent

5 years ago.

Good for SFF case with GT 1030 low profile


Excellent

5 years ago.

Good Overclocking for a 79€ passive-cooled graphics card


Excellent

4 years ago.

Now, this card is EXTREMELY low power (30W), requires no PCLE Plugins, its great. Now we get to the (obvious) issue, Speed. The card is good for basic internet things and some moderate gaming. I'm going to upgrade my pc and it will have an RTX 2070, I won't forget my 1030 Days.


Excellent

3 years ago.

It is the best thing that will fit in my PC. I'd go for something better if I could, but oh well :D (Please release a GT3030 or something soon)


Excellent

2 years ago.

It can handle more than enough in a budget price. It uses only 30W and needs no extra power cables Unfortunately, 64bit ram bus and locked features (ex gtx codecs) bottleneck it!


Average

2 years ago.

Decent card for undemanding esports games but be careful not to get the DDR4 version. I got the DDR4 version for $200 and when I try to do a Blender render on it, it feels slower than even my laptop's old 5th gen Intel CPU!


Good

22 months ago.

This little card is definitely something. It's a good solution for office tasks and very light gaming.


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