GeForce GT 1030 vs GeForce GT 610

GeForce GT 1030
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 17 May 2017
GeForce GT 1030
GeForce GT 610
Memory: 1024Mb DDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 2 Apr 2012
GeForce GT 610

Summary

Reasons to consider GeForce GT 1030

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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Pascal), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 610

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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

GeForce GT 1030

HWBench recommends GeForce GT 1030

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GT 1030GeForce GT 610
GPU NameGP108 (GP108-300-A1)vsGF119 (GF119-300-A1)
Fab Process14 nmvs40 nm
Die Size74 mm²vs79 mm²
Transistors1,800 millionvs292 million
Shaders384vs48
Compute Units3vs1
Core clock1228 MHzvs810 MHz
ROPs16vs4
TMUs24vs8

Memory Configuration

GeForce GT 1030GeForce GT 610
Memory TypeGDDR5vsDDR3
Bus Width64 bitvs64 bit
Memory Speed1502 MHz
6008 MHz effective
vs898 MHz
1796 MHz effective
Memory Size2048 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GT 1030GeForce GT 610
TDP30 wattsvs29 watts
Release Date17 May 2017vs2 Apr 2012

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GT 1030
    23.49 GP/s
  • GeForce GT 610
    1.62 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GT 1030
    35.23 GT/s
  • GeForce GT 610
    6.48 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GT 1030
    48.06 GB/s
  • GeForce GT 610
    14.40 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GT 1030
    1127.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GT 610
    155.50 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better