GeForce GT 1030 DDR4 vs GeForce GTX 550 Ti

GeForce GT 1030 DDR4
Memory: 2048Mb DDR4DESKTOP
Release date: 12 Mar 2018
GeForce GT 1030 DDR4
GeForce GTX 550 Ti
Memory: 1024Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 15 Mar 2011
GeForce GTX 550 Ti

Summary

Reasons to consider GeForce GT 1030 DDR4

96 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce GTX 550 Ti .
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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Pascal), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 550 Ti

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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 GTX 550 Ti
GPU NameGP108 (GP108-310-A1)vsGF116 (GF116-400-A1)
Fab Process14 nmvs40 nm
Die Size74 mm²vs238 mm²
Transistors1,800 millionvs1,170 million
Shaders384vs192
Compute Units3vs4
Core clock1152 MHzvs900 MHz
ROPs16vs24
TMUs24vs32

Memory Configuration

GeForce GT 1030 DDR4GeForce GTX 550 Ti
Memory TypeDDR4vsGDDR5
Bus Width64 bitvs192 bit
Memory Speed1050 MHz
2100 MHz effective
vs1026 MHz
4104 MHz effective
Memory Size2048 Mbvs1024 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GT 1030 DDR4GeForce GTX 550 Ti
TDP20 wattsvs116 watts
Release Date12 Mar 2018vs15 Mar 2011

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GT 1030 DDR4
    22.06 GP/s
  • GeForce GTX 550 Ti
    7.20 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GT 1030 DDR4
    33.10 GT/s
  • GeForce GTX 550 Ti
    28.80 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GT 1030 DDR4
    16.80 GB/s
  • GeForce GTX 550 Ti
    98.50 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GT 1030 DDR4
    1059.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GTX 550 Ti
    691.20 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better