GeForce GT 1030 DDR4 vs Radeon HD 6970
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GT 1030 DDR4 and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6970 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce GT 1030 DDR4 's Advantages
Released 7 years and 3 months late
Boost Clock1379MHz
Lower TDP (20W vs 250W)
Radeon HD 6970 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (176.0GB/s vs 16.80GB/s)
1152 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GT 1030 DDR4
1059
Radeon HD 6970
+155%
2703
Graphics Card
Mar 2018
Release Date
Dec 2010
GeForce 10
Generation
Northern Islands
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x4
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1152 MHz
Base Clock
-
1379 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1050 MHz
Memory Clock
1375 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
2GB
DDR4
Memory Type
GDDR5
64bit
Memory Bus
256bit
16.80GB/s
Bandwidth
176.0GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
24
3
SM Count
-
384
Shading Units
1536
24
TMUs
96
16
ROPs
32
48 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
8 KB (per CU)
512 KB
L2 Cache
512 KB
Theoretical Performance
22.06 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
28.16 GPixel/s
33.10 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
84.48 GTexel/s
16.55 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
1059 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
2.703 TFLOPS
33.10 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
675.8 GFLOPS
Board Design
20W
TDP
250W
200 W
Suggested PSU
600 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
Outputs
2x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
None
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
GP108
GPU Name
Cayman
GP108-310-A1
GPU Variant
Cayman XT
(215-0807007)
Pascal
Architecture
TeraScale 3
Samsung
Foundry
TSMC
14 nm
Process Size
40 nm
1.8 billion
Transistors
2.64 billion
74 mm²
Die Size
389 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.4
3.0
OpenCL
1.2
1.3
Vulkan
N/A
6.1
CUDA
-
6.4
Shader Model
5.0
