GeForce GT 1030 vs GeForce GTX 480
Summary
Reasons to consider GeForce GT 1030 |
| 220 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce GTX 480 . |
| 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| Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Pascal), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications |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 480 |
| Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications. |
| Supports PhysX |
| Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Fermi), there are no performance optimizations for current games and applications |
HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 480
Based on theoretical specifications.
Core Configuration
| GeForce GT 1030 | | GeForce GTX 480 | |
|---|
| GPU Name | GP108 (GP108-300-A1) | vs | GF100 (GF100-375-A3) |
| Fab Process | 14 nm | vs | 40 nm |
| Die Size | 74 mm² | vs | 529 mm² |
| Transistors | 1,800 million | vs | 3,100 million |
| Shaders | 384 | vs | 480 |
| Compute Units | 3 | vs | 15 |
| Core clock | 1228 MHz | vs | 701 MHz |
| ROPs | 16 | vs | 48 |
| TMUs | 24 | vs | 60 |
Memory Configuration
| GeForce GT 1030 | | GeForce GTX 480 | |
|---|
| Memory Type | GDDR5 | vs | GDDR5 |
| Bus Width | 64 bit | vs | 384 bit |
| Memory Speed | 1502 MHz
6008 MHz effective | vs | 924 MHz
3696 MHz effective |
| Memory Size | 2048 Mb | vs | 1536 Mb |
Additional details
| GeForce GT 1030 | | GeForce GTX 480 | |
|---|
| TDP | 30 watts | vs | 250 watts |
| Release Date | 17 May 2017 | vs | 26 Mar 2010 |
GeForce GT 1030
23.49 GP/s
GeForce GTX 480
21.00 GP/s
GigaPixels - higher is better
GeForce GT 1030
35.23 GT/s
GeForce GTX 480
42.10 GT/s
GigaTexels - higher is better
GeForce GT 1030
48.06 GB/s
GeForce GTX 480
177.00 GB/s
GB/s - higher is better
GeForce GT 1030
1127.00 GFLOPs
GeForce GTX 480
1345.00 GFLOPs
GFLOPs - higher is better