GeForce GT 1030 vs GeForce GT 430

GeForce GT 1030
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 17 May 2017
GeForce GT 1030
GeForce GT 430
Memory: 512Mb DDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 11 Oct 2010
GeForce GT 430

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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Pascal), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 430

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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications

GeForce GT 1030

HWBench recommends GeForce GT 1030

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GT 1030GeForce GT 430
GPU NameGP108 (GP108-300-A1)vsGF108 (GF108-300-A1)
Fab Process14 nmvs40 nm
Die Size74 mm²vs116 mm²
Transistors1,800 millionvs585 million
Shaders384vs96
Compute Units3vs2
Core clock1228 MHzvs700 MHz
ROPs16vs4
TMUs24vs16

Memory Configuration

GeForce GT 1030GeForce GT 430
Memory TypeGDDR5vsDDR3
Bus Width64 bitvs64 bit
Memory Speed1502 MHz
6008 MHz effective
vs800 MHz
1600 MHz effective
Memory Size2048 Mbvs512 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GT 1030GeForce GT 430
TDP30 wattsvs49 watts
Release Date17 May 2017vs11 Oct 2010

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GT 1030
    23.49 GP/s
  • GeForce GT 430
    2.80 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GT 1030
    35.23 GT/s
  • GeForce GT 430
    11.20 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GT 1030
    48.06 GB/s
  • GeForce GT 430
    12.80 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GT 1030
    1127.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GT 430
    268.80 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better