GeForce GT 1030 vs GeForce GTX 745 OEM

GeForce GT 1030
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 17 May 2017
GeForce GT 1030
GeForce GTX 745 OEM
Memory: 4096Mb DDR3DESKTOP
Release date: 18 Feb 2014
GeForce GTX 745 OEM

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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Pascal), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 GTX 745 OEM

Supports PhysX
Supports G-Sync
Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 GTX 745 OEM
GPU NameGP108 (GP108-300-A1)vsGM107 (GM107-300-A2)
Fab Process14 nmvs28 nm
Die Size74 mm²vs148 mm²
Transistors1,800 millionvs1,870 million
Shaders384vs384
Compute Units3vs3
Core clock1228 MHzvs1033 MHz
ROPs16vs16
TMUs24vs24

Memory Configuration

GeForce GT 1030GeForce GTX 745 OEM
Memory TypeGDDR5vsDDR3
Bus Width64 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed1502 MHz
6008 MHz effective
vs900 MHz
1800 MHz effective
Memory Size2048 Mbvs4096 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GT 1030GeForce GTX 745 OEM
TDP30 wattsvs55 watts
Release Date17 May 2017vs18 Feb 2014

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GT 1030
    23.49 GP/s
  • GeForce GTX 745 OEM
    16.50 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GT 1030
    35.23 GT/s
  • GeForce GTX 745 OEM
    24.80 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GT 1030
    48.06 GB/s
  • GeForce GTX 745 OEM
    28.80 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GT 1030
    1127.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GTX 745 OEM
    793.30 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better