NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 DDR4 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 DDR4

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GT 1030 DDR4 and 896MB VRAM GeForce GTX 260 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 9 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock1379MHz

More VRAM (2GB vs 896GB)

192 additional rendering cores

Lower TDP (20W vs 182W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (111.9GB/s vs 16.80GB/s)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 1030 DDR4 +122%

1.059 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 260

0.477 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 1030 DDR4

VS

GeForce GTX 260

Graphics Card

Mar 2018

Release Date

Jun 2008

GeForce 10

Generation

GeForce 200

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

999 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

896MB

DDR4

Memory Type

GDDR3

64bit

Memory Bus

448bit

16.80GB/s

Bandwidth

111.9GB/s

Render Config

-

3

SM Count

24

384

Shading Units

192

24

TMUs

64

16

ROPs

28

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

-

512 KB

L2 Cache

224 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

22.06 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

16.13 GPixel/s

33.10 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

36.86 GTexel/s

16.55 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

1059 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

476.9 GFLOPS

33.10 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

59.62 GFLOPS

Board Design

20W

TDP

182W

200 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0

Outputs

2x DVI 1x S-Video

None

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GP108

GPU Name

GT200

GP108-310-A1

GPU Variant

G200-100-A2

Pascal

Architecture

Tesla 2.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

65 nm

1.8 billion

Transistors

1.4 billion

74 mm²

Die Size

576 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

11.1 (10_0)

4.6

OpenGL

3.3

3.0

OpenCL

1.1

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

6.1

CUDA

1.3

6.4

Shader Model

4.0

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