GeForce GT 1030 DDR4 vs GeForce GTX 950
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GT 1030 DDR4 and 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 950 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce GT 1030 DDR4 's Advantages
Released 2 years and 7 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 16% (1379MHz vs 1188MHz)
Lower TDP (20W vs 90W)
GeForce GTX 950 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (105.8GB/s vs 16.80GB/s)
384 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GT 1030 DDR4
1059
GeForce GTX 950
+72%
1825
3DMark Time Spy
GeForce GT 1030 DDR4
638
GeForce GTX 950
+198%
1903
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
GeForce GT 1030 DDR4
177
GeForce GTX 950
+123%
396
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p
GeForce GT 1030 DDR4
2
GeForce GTX 950
+150%
5
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p
GeForce GT 1030 DDR4
7
GeForce GTX 950
+185%
20
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p
GeForce GT 1030 DDR4
12
GeForce GTX 950
+150%
30
Graphics Card
Mar 2018
Release Date
Aug 2015
GeForce 10
Generation
GeForce 900
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x4
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1152 MHz
Base Clock
1024 MHz
1379 MHz
Boost Clock
1188 MHz
1050 MHz
Memory Clock
1653 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
2GB
DDR4
Memory Type
GDDR5
64bit
Memory Bus
128bit
16.80GB/s
Bandwidth
105.8GB/s
Render Config
3
SM Count
-
384
Shading Units
768
24
TMUs
48
16
ROPs
32
48 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SMM)
512 KB
L2 Cache
1024 KB
Theoretical Performance
22.06 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
38.02 GPixel/s
33.10 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
57.02 GTexel/s
16.55 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
1059 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1.825 TFLOPS
33.10 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
57.02 GFLOPS
Board Design
20W
TDP
90W
200 W
Suggested PSU
250 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
None
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
GP108
GPU Name
GM206
GP108-310-A1
GPU Variant
GM206-250-A1
Pascal
Architecture
Maxwell 2.0
Samsung
Foundry
TSMC
14 nm
Process Size
28 nm
1.8 billion
Transistors
2.94 billion
74 mm²
Die Size
228 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
12 (12_1)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.3
Vulkan
1.3
6.1
CUDA
5.2
6.4
Shader Model
6.4
