GeForce GT 1030 vs GeForce 9800 GTX

GeForce GT 1030
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 17 May 2017
GeForce GT 1030
GeForce 9800 GTX
Memory: 512Mb GDDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 28 Mar 2008
GeForce 9800 GTX

Summary

Reasons to consider GeForce GT 1030

110 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce 9800 GTX .
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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Pascal), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 9800 GTX

Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Tesla), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications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

HWBench recommends GeForce GT 1030

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GT 1030GeForce 9800 GTX
GPU NameGP108 (GP108-300-A1)vsG92 (G92-420-A2)
Fab Process14 nmvs65 nm
Die Size74 mm²vs324 mm²
Transistors1,800 millionvs754 million
Shaders384vs128
Compute Units3vs8
Core clock1228 MHzvs675 MHz
ROPs16vs16
TMUs24vs64

Memory Configuration

GeForce GT 1030GeForce 9800 GTX
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR3
Bus Width64 bitvs256 bit
Memory Speed1502 MHz
6008 MHz effective
vs1100 MHz
2200 MHz effective
Memory Size2048 Mbvs512 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GT 1030GeForce 9800 GTX
TDP30 wattsvs140 watts
Release Date17 May 2017vs28 Mar 2008

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GT 1030
    23.49 GP/s
  • GeForce 9800 GTX
    10.80 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GT 1030
    35.23 GT/s
  • GeForce 9800 GTX
    43.20 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GT 1030
    48.06 GB/s
  • GeForce 9800 GTX
    70.40 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GT 1030
    1127.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce 9800 GTX
    432.10 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better