GeForce GT 1030 DDR4 vs GeForce GT 710 (Fermi)

GeForce GT 1030 DDR4
Memory: 2048Mb DDR4DESKTOP
Release date: 12 Mar 2018
GeForce GT 1030 DDR4
GeForce GT 710 (Fermi)
Memory: 1024Mb DDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 22 Aug 2014
GeForce GT 710 (Fermi)
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Summary

Reasons to consider GeForce GT 1030 DDR4

This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications.
Supports PhysX
Supports G-Sync
Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Pascal), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider GeForce GT 710 (Fermi)

Supports PhysX
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

GeForce GT 1030 DDR4

HWBench recommends GeForce GT 1030 DDR4

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GT 1030 DDR4GeForce GT 710 (Fermi)
GPU NameGP108 (GP108-310-A1)vsGF119 (GF119-300-A1)
Fab Process14 nmvs40 nm
Die Size74 mm²vs79 mm²
Transistors1,800 millionvs292 million
Shaders384vs48
Compute Units3vs1
Core clock1152 MHzvs810 MHz
ROPs16vs4
TMUs24vs8

Memory Configuration

GeForce GT 1030 DDR4GeForce GT 710 (Fermi)
Memory TypeDDR4vsDDR3
Bus Width64 bitvs64 bit
Memory Speed1050 MHz
2100 MHz effective
vs898 MHz
1796 MHz effective
Memory Size2048 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GT 1030 DDR4GeForce GT 710 (Fermi)
TDP20 wattsvs29 watts
Release Date12 Mar 2018vs22 Aug 2014

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GT 1030 DDR4
    22.06 GP/s
  • GeForce GT 710 (Fermi)
    1.62 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GT 1030 DDR4
    33.10 GT/s
  • GeForce GT 710 (Fermi)
    6.48 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GT 1030 DDR4
    16.80 GB/s
  • GeForce GT 710 (Fermi)
    14.37 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GT 1030 DDR4
    1059.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GT 710 (Fermi)
    155.52 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better