GeForce GT 1030 DDR4 vs GeForce 405 OEM

GeForce GT 1030 DDR4
Memory: 2048Mb DDR4DESKTOP
Release date: 12 Mar 2018
GeForce GT 1030 DDR4
GeForce 405 OEM
Memory: 512Mb DDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 3 Sep 2010
GeForce 405 OEM

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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Pascal), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 405 OEM

Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Tesla), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications
PhysX support, however PhysX performance on newest games may be poor

GeForce GT 1030 DDR4

HWBench recommends GeForce GT 1030 DDR4

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GT 1030 DDR4GeForce 405 OEM
GPU NameGP108 (GP108-310-A1)vsGT216 ()
Fab Process14 nmvs40 nm
Die Size74 mm²vs100 mm²
Transistors1,800 millionvs486 million
Shaders384vs48
Compute Units3vs2
Core clock1152 MHzvs475 MHz
ROPs16vs8
TMUs24vs16

Memory Configuration

GeForce GT 1030 DDR4GeForce 405 OEM
Memory TypeDDR4vsDDR3
Bus Width64 bitvs64 bit
Memory Speed1050 MHz
2100 MHz effective
vs800 MHz
1600 MHz effective
Memory Size2048 Mbvs512 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GT 1030 DDR4GeForce 405 OEM
TDP20 wattsvs25 watts
Release Date12 Mar 2018vs3 Sep 2010

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GT 1030 DDR4
    22.06 GP/s
  • GeForce 405 OEM
    3.80 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GT 1030 DDR4
    33.10 GT/s
  • GeForce 405 OEM
    7.60 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GT 1030 DDR4
    16.80 GB/s
  • GeForce 405 OEM
    12.80 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GT 1030 DDR4
    1059.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce 405 OEM
    105.60 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better