GeForce GT 1030 vs GeForce GTX 1080

GeForce GT 1030
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 17 May 2017
GeForce GT 1030
GeForce GTX 1080
Memory: 8192Mb GDDR5XDESKTOP
Release date: 27 May 2016
GeForce GTX 1080

Summary

Reasons to consider GeForce GT 1030

150 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce GTX 1080 .
This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Pascal), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 1080

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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Pascal), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

GeForce GTX 1080

HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 1080

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GT 1030GeForce GTX 1080
GPU NameGP108 (GP108-300-A1)vsGP104 (GP104-400-A1)
Fab Process14 nmvs16 nm
Die Size74 mm²vs314 mm²
Transistors1,800 millionvs7,200 million
Shaders384vs2560
Compute Units3vs20
Core clock1228 MHzvs1607 MHz
ROPs16vs64
TMUs24vs160

Memory Configuration

GeForce GT 1030GeForce GTX 1080
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5X
Bus Width64 bitvs256 bit
Memory Speed1502 MHz
6008 MHz effective
vs1251 MHz
10008 MHz effective
Memory Size2048 Mbvs8192 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GT 1030GeForce GTX 1080
TDP30 wattsvs180 watts
Release Date17 May 2017vs27 May 2016

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GT 1030
    23.49 GP/s
  • GeForce GTX 1080
    102.80 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GT 1030
    35.23 GT/s
  • GeForce GTX 1080
    257.10 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GT 1030
    48.06 GB/s
  • GeForce GTX 1080
    320.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GT 1030
    1127.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GTX 1080
    8228.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better