NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 DDR4 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti

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NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 DDR4 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GT 1030 DDR4 and 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 980 Ti 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 2 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 28% (1379MHz vs 1076MHz)

Lower TDP (20W vs 250W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Ti 's Advantages

More VRAM (6GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (336.6GB/s vs 16.80GB/s)

2432 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 1030 DDR4

1.059 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 980 Ti +472%

6.06 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce GT 1030 DDR4

621

GeForce GTX 980 Ti +827%

5758

Blender

GeForce GT 1030 DDR4

114

GeForce GTX 980 Ti +385%

553

OctaneBench

GeForce GT 1030 DDR4

20

GeForce GTX 980 Ti +565%

133

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce GT 1030 DDR4

2

GeForce GTX 980 Ti +1100%

24

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce GT 1030 DDR4

7

GeForce GTX 980 Ti +542%

45

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce GT 1030 DDR4

12

GeForce GTX 980 Ti +525%

75

GeForce GT 1030 DDR4

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GeForce GTX 980 Ti

Graphics Card

Mar 2018

Release Date

Jun 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

1000 MHz

1379 MHz

Boost Clock

1076 MHz

1050 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

6GB

DDR4

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

384bit

16.80GB/s

Bandwidth

336.6GB/s

Render Config

3

SM Count

-

Compute Units

-

384

Shading Units

2816

24

TMUs

176

16

ROPs

96

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

3 MB

Theoretical Performance

22.06 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

103.3 GPixel/s

33.10 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

189.4 GTexel/s

16.55 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

1059 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

6.060 TFLOPS

33.10 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

189.4 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GP108

GPU Name

GM200

GP108-310-A1

GPU Variant

GM200-310-A1

Pascal

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.8 billion

Transistors

8 billion

74 mm²

Die Size

601 mm²

Board Design

20W

TDP

250W

200 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0

Outputs

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

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

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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