NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 DDR4 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 DDR4

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GT 1030 DDR4 and 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960 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 3 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 17% (1379MHz vs 1178MHz)

Lower TDP (20W vs 120W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (112.2GB/s vs 16.80GB/s)

640 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 1030 DDR4

1.059 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 960 +127%

2.413 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce GT 1030 DDR4

619

GeForce GTX 960 +268%

2283

Blender

GeForce GT 1030 DDR4

96

GeForce GTX 960 +96%

189

OctaneBench

GeForce GT 1030 DDR4

19

GeForce GTX 960 +142%

46

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce GT 1030 DDR4

2

GeForce GTX 960 +400%

10

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce GT 1030 DDR4

7

GeForce GTX 960 +257%

25

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce GT 1030 DDR4

12

GeForce GTX 960 +191%

35

GeForce GT 1030 DDR4

VS

GeForce GTX 960

Graphics Card

Mar 2018

Release Date

Jan 2015

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

1178 MHz

1050 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

DDR4

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

128bit

16.80GB/s

Bandwidth

112.2GB/s

Render Config

-

3

SM Count

-

384

Shading Units

1024

24

TMUs

64

16

ROPs

32

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

22.06 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

37.70 GPixel/s

33.10 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

75.39 GTexel/s

16.55 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

1059 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.413 TFLOPS

33.10 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

75.39 GFLOPS

Board Design

20W

TDP

120W

200 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Processor

GP108

GPU Name

GM206

GP108-310-A1

GPU Variant

GM206-300-A1

Pascal

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.8 billion

Transistors

2.94 billion

74 mm²

Die Size

228 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

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