GeForce GT 1030 vs GeForce GT 240
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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Pascal), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications |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 GT 240 |
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Tesla), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications |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 GT 240 | |
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GPU Name | GP108 (GP108-300-A1) | vs | GT215 (GT215-450-A2) |
Fab Process | 14 nm | vs | 40 nm |
Die Size | 74 mm² | vs | 144 mm² |
Transistors | 1,800 million | vs | 727 million |
Shaders | 384 | vs | 96 |
Compute Units | 3 | vs | 4 |
Core clock | 1228 MHz | vs | 550 MHz |
ROPs | 16 | vs | 8 |
TMUs | 24 | vs | 32 |
Memory Configuration
| GeForce GT 1030 | | GeForce GT 240 | |
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Memory Type | GDDR5 | vs | GDDR5 |
Bus Width | 64 bit | vs | 128 bit |
Memory Speed | 1502 MHz
6008 MHz effective | vs | 850 MHz
3400 MHz effective |
Memory Size | 2048 Mb | vs | 1024 Mb |
Additional details
| GeForce GT 1030 | | GeForce GT 240 | |
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TDP | 30 watts | vs | 69 watts |
Release Date | 17 May 2017 | vs | 17 Nov 2009 |
GeForce GT 1030
23.49 GP/s
GeForce GT 240
4.40 GP/s
GigaPixels - higher is better
GeForce GT 1030
35.23 GT/s
GeForce GT 240
17.60 GT/s
GigaTexels - higher is better
GeForce GT 1030
48.06 GB/s
GeForce GT 240
54.40 GB/s
GB/s - higher is better
GeForce GT 1030
1127.00 GFLOPs
GeForce GT 240
257.30 GFLOPs
GFLOPs - higher is better