GeForce GT 1030 vs GeForce 210
Summary
Reasons to consider GeForce GT 1030 |
| 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| Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Pascal), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications |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 210 |
| Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Tesla), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications |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 |
HWBench recommends GeForce GT 1030
Based on theoretical specifications.
Core Configuration
| GeForce GT 1030 | | GeForce 210 | |
|---|
| GPU Name | GP108 (GP108-300-A1) | vs | GT218 (GT218-300-B1) |
| Fab Process | 14 nm | vs | 40 nm |
| Die Size | 74 mm² | vs | 57 mm² |
| Transistors | 1,800 million | vs | 260 million |
| Shaders | 384 | vs | 16 |
| Compute Units | 3 | vs | 2 |
| Core clock | 1228 MHz | vs | 520 MHz |
| ROPs | 16 | vs | 4 |
| TMUs | 24 | vs | 8 |
Memory Configuration
| GeForce GT 1030 | | GeForce 210 | |
|---|
| Memory Type | GDDR5 | vs | DDR3 |
| Bus Width | 64 bit | vs | 64 bit |
| Memory Speed | 1502 MHz
6008 MHz effective | vs | 400 MHz
800 MHz effective |
| Memory Size | 2048 Mb | vs | 512 Mb |
Additional details
| GeForce GT 1030 | | GeForce 210 | |
|---|
| TDP | 30 watts | vs | 31 watts |
| Release Date | 17 May 2017 | vs | 12 Oct 2009 |
GeForce GT 1030
23.49 GP/s
GeForce 210
2.08 GP/s
GigaPixels - higher is better
GeForce GT 1030
35.23 GT/s
GeForce 210
4.16 GT/s
GigaTexels - higher is better
GeForce GT 1030
48.06 GB/s
GeForce 210
6.40 GB/s
GB/s - higher is better
GeForce GT 1030
1127.00 GFLOPs
GeForce 210
39.36 GFLOPs
GFLOPs - higher is better