GeForce GT 1030 DDR4 vs GeForce GTX 950M

GeForce GT 1030 DDR4
Memory: 2048Mb DDR4DESKTOP
Release date: 12 Mar 2018
GeForce GT 1030 DDR4
GeForce GTX 950M
Memory: 4096Mb DDR3MOBILE
Release date: 13 Mar 2015
GeForce GTX 950M

Summary

Reasons to consider GeForce GT 1030 DDR4

55 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce GTX 950M .
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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Pascal), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 950M

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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

GeForce GT 1030 DDR4

HWBench recommends GeForce GT 1030 DDR4

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GT 1030 DDR4GeForce GTX 950M
GPU NameGP108 (GP108-310-A1)vsGM107 (N16P-GT)
Fab Process14 nmvs28 nm
Die Size74 mm²vs148 mm²
Transistors1,800 millionvs1,870 million
Shaders384vs640
Compute Units3vs5
Core clock1152 MHzvs993 MHz
ROPs16vs16
TMUs24vs40

Memory Configuration

GeForce GT 1030 DDR4GeForce GTX 950M
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 950M
TDP20 wattsvs75 watts
Release Date12 Mar 2018vs13 Mar 2015

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GT 1030 DDR4
    22.06 GP/s
  • GeForce GTX 950M
    15.89 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GT 1030 DDR4
    33.10 GT/s
  • GeForce GTX 950M
    39.70 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GT 1030 DDR4
    16.80 GB/s
  • GeForce GTX 950M
    28.80 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GT 1030 DDR4
    1059.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GTX 950M
    1271.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better