GeForce GT 1030 DDR4 vs GeForce GTX 980
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GT 1030 DDR4 and 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce GT 1030 DDR4 's Advantages
Released 3 years and 6 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 13% (1379MHz vs 1216MHz)
Lower TDP (20W vs 165W)
GeForce GTX 980 's Advantages
More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 16.80GB/s)
1664 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GT 1030 DDR4
1059
GeForce GTX 980
+370%
4981
3DMark Time Spy
GeForce GT 1030 DDR4
638
GeForce GTX 980
+583%
4362
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
GeForce GT 1030 DDR4
177
GeForce GTX 980
+1057%
2049
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p
GeForce GT 1030 DDR4
2
GeForce GTX 980
+800%
18
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p
GeForce GT 1030 DDR4
7
GeForce GTX 980
+400%
35
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p
GeForce GT 1030 DDR4
12
GeForce GTX 980
+416%
62
Graphics Card
Mar 2018
Release Date
Sep 2014
GeForce 10
Generation
GeForce 900
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x4
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1152 MHz
Base Clock
1127 MHz
1379 MHz
Boost Clock
1216 MHz
1050 MHz
Memory Clock
1753 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
4GB
DDR4
Memory Type
GDDR5
64bit
Memory Bus
256bit
16.80GB/s
Bandwidth
224.4GB/s
Render Config
3
SM Count
-
384
Shading Units
2048
24
TMUs
128
16
ROPs
64
48 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SMM)
512 KB
L2 Cache
2 MB
Theoretical Performance
22.06 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
77.82 GPixel/s
33.10 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
155.6 GTexel/s
16.55 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
1059 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
4.981 TFLOPS
33.10 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
155.6 GFLOPS
Board Design
20W
TDP
165W
200 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
None
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
GP108
GPU Name
GM204
GP108-310-A1
GPU Variant
GM204-400-A1
Pascal
Architecture
Maxwell 2.0
Samsung
Foundry
TSMC
14 nm
Process Size
28 nm
1.8 billion
Transistors
5.2 billion
74 mm²
Die Size
398 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
