NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 DDR4 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470

Comparative analysis of NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 DDR4 and NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470 videocards for all known characteristics in the following categories: Essentials, Technical info, Video outputs and ports, Compatibility, dimensions and requirements, API support, Memory, Technologies. Benchmark videocards performance analysis: 3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score, PassMark - G3D Mark, PassMark - G2D Mark, Geekbench - OpenCL, CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s), CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames), GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps), GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps).

NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 DDR4

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470

Differences

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 DDR4

Videocard is newer: launch date 7 year(s) 11 month(s) later
A newer manufacturing process allows for a more powerful, yet cooler running videocard: 14 nm vs 40 nm
10.8x lower typical power consumption: 20 Watt vs 215 Watt
Around 60% higher maximum memory size: 2 GB vs 1280 MB
Around 25% higher memory clock speed: 2100 MHz vs 1674 MHz (3348 data rate)

Launch date	12 March 2018 vs 26 March 2010
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm vs 40 nm
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	20 Watt vs 215 Watt
Maximum memory size	2 GB vs 1280 MB
Memory clock speed	2100 MHz vs 1674 MHz (3348 data rate)

Reasons to consider the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470

Around 5% higher core clock speed: 1215 MHz vs 1152 MHz
Around 3% higher texture fill rate: 34.0 billion / sec vs 33.1 GTexel / s
Around 17% higher pipelines: 448 vs 384
Around 3% better floating-point performance: 1,088.6 gflops vs 1,059 gflops

Core clock speed	1215 MHz vs 1152 MHz
Texture fill rate	34.0 billion / sec vs 33.1 GTexel / s
Pipelines	448 vs 384
Floating-point performance	1,088.6 gflops vs 1,059 gflops

Compare benchmarks

GPU 1: NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 DDR4
GPU 2: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470

Name	NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 DDR4	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470
3DMark Fire Strike - Graphics Score	629	0
PassMark - G3D Mark		3134
PassMark - G2D Mark		414
Geekbench - OpenCL		11089
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Face Detection (mPixels/s)		27.93
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Ocean Surface Simulation (Frames/s)		980.005
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - T-Rex (Frames/s)		3.268
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Video Composition (Frames/s)		47.309
CompuBench 1.5 Desktop - Bitcoin Mining (mHash/s)		97.852
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Frames)		3873
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Frames)		3614
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Frames)		3317
GFXBench 4.0 - Car Chase Offscreen (Fps)		3873
GFXBench 4.0 - Manhattan (Fps)		3614
GFXBench 4.0 - T-Rex (Fps)		3317

Compare specifications (specs)

	NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 DDR4	NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470
Essentials
Architecture	Pascal	Fermi
Code name	GP108	GF100
Launch date	12 March 2018	26 March 2010
Launch price (MSRP)	$79	$349
Place in performance rating	1476	790
Type	Desktop	Desktop
Price now		$522.01
Value for money (0-100)		6.87
Technical info
Boost clock speed	1379 MHz
Core clock speed	1152 MHz	1215 MHz
Floating-point performance	1,059 gflops	1,088.6 gflops
Manufacturing process technology	14 nm	40 nm
Pipelines	384	448
Texture fill rate	33.1 GTexel / s	34.0 billion / sec
Thermal Design Power (TDP)	20 Watt	215 Watt
Transistor count	1,800 million	3,100 million
CUDA cores		448
Maximum GPU temperature		105 °C
Video outputs and ports
Display Connectors	1x DVI, 1x HDMI	2x DVI, 1x mini-HDMI, Two Dual Link DVIMini HDMI
Audio input for HDMI		Internal
HDMI
Maximum VGA resolution		2048x1536
Multi monitor support
Compatibility, dimensions and requirements
Interface	PCIe 3.0 x4	PCIe 2.0 x16
Length	145 mm	9.5" (241 mm) (24.1 cm)
Supplementary power connectors	None	Two 6-pins
Bus support		16x PCI-E 2.0
Height		4.376" (111 mm) (11.1 cm)
SLI options		2-way3-way
API support
DirectX	12.0 (12_1)	12.0 (11_0)
OpenGL	4.6	4.2
Memory
Maximum RAM amount	2 GB	1280 MB
Memory bandwidth	16.8 GB / s	133.9 GB / s
Memory bus width	64 Bit	320 Bit
Memory clock speed	2100 MHz	1674 MHz (3348 data rate)
Memory type	DDR4	GDDR5
Shared memory		0
Technologies
3D Vision
CUDA
DSR
SLI
Surround