GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB vs GeForce GT 1030

GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB
Memory: 3072Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 21 May 2018
GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB
GeForce GT 1030
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 17 May 2017
GeForce GT 1030

Summary

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB

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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Pascal), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 GT 1030

45 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB .
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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Pascal), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 1050 3 GB

HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GTX 1050 3 GBGeForce GT 1030
GPU NameGP107 (GP107-301-A1)vsGP108 (GP108-300-A1)
Fab Process14 nmvs14 nm
Die Size132 mm²vs74 mm²
Transistors3,300 millionvs1,800 million
Shaders768vs384
Compute Units6vs3
Core clock1392 MHzvs1228 MHz
ROPs24vs16
TMUs48vs24

Memory Configuration

GeForce GTX 1050 3 GBGeForce GT 1030
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width96 bitvs64 bit
Memory Speed1752 MHz
7008 MHz effective
vs1502 MHz
6008 MHz effective
Memory Size3072 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GTX 1050 3 GBGeForce GT 1030
TDP75 wattsvs30 watts
Release Date21 May 2018vs17 May 2017

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB
    36.43 GP/s
  • GeForce GT 1030
    23.49 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB
    72.86 GT/s
  • GeForce GT 1030
    35.23 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB
    84.10 GB/s
  • GeForce GT 1030
    48.06 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GTX 1050 3 GB
    2332.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GT 1030
    1127.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better