GeForce GT 1030 vs GeForce GTX 980 Ti

GeForce GT 1030
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 17 May 2017
GeForce GT 1030
GeForce GTX 980 Ti
Memory: 6144Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 2 Jun 2015
GeForce GTX 980 Ti

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 980 Ti .
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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Pascal), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 980 Ti

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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Maxwell), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 980 Ti

HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 980 Ti

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GT 1030GeForce GTX 980 Ti
GPU NameGP108 (GP108-300-A1)vsGM200 (GM200-310-A1)
Fab Process14 nmvs28 nm
Die Size74 mm²vs601 mm²
Transistors1,800 millionvs8,000 million
Shaders384vs2816
Compute Units3vs22
Core clock1228 MHzvs1000 MHz
ROPs16vs96
TMUs24vs176

Memory Configuration

GeForce GT 1030GeForce GTX 980 Ti
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width64 bitvs384 bit
Memory Speed1502 MHz
6008 MHz effective
vs1753 MHz
7012 MHz effective
Memory Size2048 Mbvs6144 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GT 1030GeForce GTX 980 Ti
TDP30 wattsvs250 watts
Release Date17 May 2017vs2 Jun 2015

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GT 1030
    23.49 GP/s
  • GeForce GTX 980 Ti
    96.00 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GT 1030
    35.23 GT/s
  • GeForce GTX 980 Ti
    176.00 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GT 1030
    48.06 GB/s
  • GeForce GTX 980 Ti
    337.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GT 1030
    1127.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GTX 980 Ti
    5632.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better