GeForce GT 1030 DDR4 vs Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GT 1030 DDR4 and 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce GT 1030 DDR4 's Advantages
Released 5 years and 9 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 31% (1379MHz vs 1050MHz)
Lower TDP (20W vs 300W)
Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition 's Advantages
More VRAM (3GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (288.0GB/s vs 16.80GB/s)
1664 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GT 1030 DDR4
1059
Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition
+306%
4301
Graphics Card
Mar 2018
Release Date
Jun 2012
GeForce 10
Generation
Southern Islands
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x4
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1152 MHz
Base Clock
1000 MHz
1379 MHz
Boost Clock
1050 MHz
1050 MHz
Memory Clock
1500 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
3GB
DDR4
Memory Type
GDDR5
64bit
Memory Bus
384bit
16.80GB/s
Bandwidth
288.0GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
32
3
SM Count
-
384
Shading Units
2048
24
TMUs
128
16
ROPs
32
48 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
16 KB (per CU)
512 KB
L2 Cache
768 KB
Theoretical Performance
22.06 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
33.60 GPixel/s
33.10 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
134.4 GTexel/s
16.55 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
1059 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
4.301 TFLOPS
33.10 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
1075 GFLOPS
Board Design
20W
TDP
300W
200 W
Suggested PSU
700 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
None
Power Connectors
1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin
Graphics Processor
GP108
GPU Name
Tahiti
GP108-310-A1
GPU Variant
Tahiti XT2
(215-0821065)
Pascal
Architecture
GCN 1.0
Samsung
Foundry
TSMC
14 nm
Process Size
28 nm
1.8 billion
Transistors
4.313 billion
74 mm²
Die Size
352 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
12 (11_1)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
1.2
1.3
Vulkan
1.2
6.1
CUDA
-
6.4
Shader Model
5.1
