NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 DDR4 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 420 OEM

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NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 DDR4 NVIDIA GeForce GT 420 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GT 1030 DDR4 and 1024MB VRAM GeForce GT 420 OEM to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 DDR4 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock1379MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 1GB)

336 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (20W vs 50W)

NVIDIA GeForce GT 420 OEM 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (28.80GB/s vs 16.80GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 1030 DDR4 +690%

1.059 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 420 OEM

0.134 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 1030 DDR4

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GeForce GT 420 OEM

Graphics Card

Mar 2018

Release Date

Sep 2010

GeForce 10

Generation

GeForce 400

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

900 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

1024MB

DDR4

Memory Type

DDR3

64bit

Memory Bus

128bit

16.80GB/s

Bandwidth

28.80GB/s

Render Config

3

SM Count

1

-

Compute Units

-

384

Shading Units

48

24

TMUs

4

16

ROPs

4

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

22.06 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

1.400 GPixel/s

33.10 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

2.800 GTexel/s

16.55 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

1059 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

134.4 GFLOPS

33.10 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

11.20 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GP108

GPU Name

GF108

GP108-310-A1

GPU Variant

GF108-200-A1

Pascal

Architecture

Fermi

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

40 nm

1.8 billion

Transistors

0.585 billion

74 mm²

Die Size

116 mm²

Board Design

20W

TDP

50W

200 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 1.3a 1x VGA

None

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

1.1

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

6.1

CUDA

2.1

6.4

Shader Model

5.1

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