GeForce RTX 2060 vs GeForce GT 1030

GeForce RTX 2060
Memory: 6144Mb GDDR6DESKTOP
Release date: 15 Jan 2019
GeForce RTX 2060
GeForce GT 1030
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 17 May 2017
GeForce GT 1030

Summary

Reasons to consider GeForce RTX 2060

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
Supports DirectX Raytracing (DXR)
Supports Deep Learning Super-Sampling (DLSS)

Reasons to consider GeForce GT 1030

130 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce RTX 2060 .
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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Pascal), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 RTX 2060

HWBench recommends GeForce RTX 2060

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce RTX 2060GeForce GT 1030
GPU NameTU106 (TU106-200A-KA-A1)vsGP108 (GP108-300-A1)
Fab Process12 nmvs14 nm
Die Size445 mm²vs74 mm²
Transistors10,800 millionvs1,800 million
Shaders1920vs384
Compute Units30vs3
Core clock1365 MHzvs1228 MHz
ROPs48vs16
TMUs120vs24

Memory Configuration

GeForce RTX 2060GeForce GT 1030
Memory TypeGDDR6vsGDDR5
Bus Width192 bitvs64 bit
Memory Speed1750 MHz
14000 MHz effective
vs1502 MHz
6008 MHz effective
Memory Size6144 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

GeForce RTX 2060GeForce GT 1030
TDP160 wattsvs30 watts
Release Date15 Jan 2019vs17 May 2017

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce RTX 2060
    80.64 GP/s
  • GeForce GT 1030
    23.49 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce RTX 2060
    201.60 GT/s
  • GeForce GT 1030
    35.23 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce RTX 2060
    336.00 GB/s
  • GeForce GT 1030
    48.06 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce RTX 2060
    6451.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GT 1030
    1127.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better