GeForce GT 1030 DDR4 vs GeForce GTX 650

GeForce GT 1030 DDR4
Memory: 2048Mb DDR4DESKTOP
Release date: 12 Mar 2018
GeForce GT 1030 DDR4
GeForce GTX 650
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 27 Nov 2013
GeForce GTX 650

Summary

Reasons to consider GeForce GT 1030 DDR4

45 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce GTX 650 .
This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Pascal), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 GTX 650

Supports PhysX
Supports G-Sync
Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications

No clear winner declared

We have no data to declare a winner at this time.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GT 1030 DDR4GeForce GTX 650
GPU NameGP108 (GP108-310-A1)vsGK106 ()
Fab Process14 nmvs28 nm
Die Size74 mm²vs221 mm²
Transistors1,800 millionvs2,540 million
Shaders384vs384
Compute Units3vs2
Core clock1152 MHzvs1058 MHz
ROPs16vs16
TMUs24vs32

Memory Configuration

GeForce GT 1030 DDR4GeForce GTX 650
Memory TypeDDR4vsGDDR5
Bus Width64 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed1050 MHz
2100 MHz effective
vs1250 MHz
5000 MHz effective
Memory Size2048 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GT 1030 DDR4GeForce GTX 650
TDP20 wattsvs65 watts
Release Date12 Mar 2018vs27 Nov 2013

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GT 1030 DDR4
    22.06 GP/s
  • GeForce GTX 650
    8.46 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GT 1030 DDR4
    33.10 GT/s
  • GeForce GTX 650
    33.90 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GT 1030 DDR4
    16.80 GB/s
  • GeForce GTX 650
    80.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GT 1030 DDR4
    1059.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GTX 650
    812.50 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better