GeForce GT 1030 vs GeForce GTX 950

GeForce GT 1030
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 17 May 2017
GeForce GT 1030
GeForce GTX 950
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 20 Aug 2015
GeForce GTX 950

Summary

Reasons to consider GeForce GT 1030

60 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce GTX 950 .
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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Pascal), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 950

Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications.
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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 GTX 950

HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 950

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GT 1030GeForce GTX 950
GPU NameGP108 (GP108-300-A1)vsGM206 (GM206-250-A1)
Fab Process14 nmvs28 nm
Die Size74 mm²vs228 mm²
Transistors1,800 millionvs2,940 million
Shaders384vs768
Compute Units3vs6
Core clock1228 MHzvs1024 MHz
ROPs16vs32
TMUs24vs48

Memory Configuration

GeForce GT 1030GeForce GTX 950
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width64 bitvs128 bit
Memory Speed1502 MHz
6008 MHz effective
vs1653 MHz
6612 MHz effective
Memory Size2048 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GT 1030GeForce GTX 950
TDP30 wattsvs90 watts
Release Date17 May 2017vs20 Aug 2015

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GT 1030
    23.49 GP/s
  • GeForce GTX 950
    32.80 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GT 1030
    35.23 GT/s
  • GeForce GTX 950
    49.20 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GT 1030
    48.06 GB/s
  • GeForce GTX 950
    105.80 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GT 1030
    1127.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GTX 950
    1572.90 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better