GeForce GT 1030 DDR4 vs GeForce GTX 745 OEM

GeForce GT 1030 DDR4
Memory: 2048Mb DDR4DESKTOP
Release date: 12 Mar 2018
GeForce GT 1030 DDR4
GeForce GTX 745 OEM
Memory: 4096Mb DDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 18 Feb 2014
GeForce GTX 745 OEM

Summary

Reasons to consider GeForce GT 1030 DDR4

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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Pascal), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 745 OEM

Supports PhysX
Supports G-Sync
Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 745 OEM
GPU NameGP108 (GP108-310-A1)vsGM107 (GM107-300-A2)
Fab Process14 nmvs28 nm
Die Size74 mm²vs148 mm²
Transistors1,800 millionvs1,870 million
Shaders384vs384
Compute Units3vs3
Core clock1152 MHzvs1033 MHz
ROPs16vs16
TMUs24vs24

Memory Configuration

GeForce GT 1030 DDR4GeForce GTX 745 OEM
Memory TypeDDR4vsDDR3
Bus Width64 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed1050 MHz
2100 MHz effective
vs900 MHz
1800 MHz effective
Memory Size2048 Mbvs4096 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GT 1030 DDR4GeForce GTX 745 OEM
TDP20 wattsvs55 watts
Release Date12 Mar 2018vs18 Feb 2014

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GT 1030 DDR4
    22.06 GP/s
  • GeForce GTX 745 OEM
    16.50 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GT 1030 DDR4
    33.10 GT/s
  • GeForce GTX 745 OEM
    24.80 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GT 1030 DDR4
    16.80 GB/s
  • GeForce GTX 745 OEM
    28.80 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GT 1030 DDR4
    1059.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GTX 745 OEM
    793.30 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better