GeForce GT 1030 vs GeForce GTX 460

GeForce GT 1030
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 17 May 2017
GeForce GT 1030
GeForce GTX 460
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 12 Jul 2010
GeForce GTX 460

Summary

Reasons to consider GeForce GT 1030

130 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce GTX 460 .
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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Pascal), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 GTX 460

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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 GTX 460
GPU NameGP108 (GP108-300-A1)vsGF104 (GF104-300-KB-A1)
Fab Process14 nmvs40 nm
Die Size74 mm²vs332 mm²
Transistors1,800 millionvs1,950 million
Shaders384vs336
Compute Units3vs7
Core clock1228 MHzvs675 MHz
ROPs16vs32
TMUs24vs56

Memory Configuration

GeForce GT 1030GeForce GTX 460
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width64 bitvs256 bit
Memory Speed1502 MHz
6008 MHz effective
vs900 MHz
3600 MHz effective
Memory Size2048 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GT 1030GeForce GTX 460
TDP30 wattsvs160 watts
Release Date17 May 2017vs12 Jul 2010

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GT 1030
    23.49 GP/s
  • GeForce GTX 460
    9.45 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GT 1030
    35.23 GT/s
  • GeForce GTX 460
    37.80 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GT 1030
    48.06 GB/s
  • GeForce GTX 460
    115.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GT 1030
    1127.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GTX 460
    907.20 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better