NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 DDR4 vs AMD Radeon HD 6950

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 DDR4 AMD Radeon HD 6950

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GT 1030 DDR4 and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6950 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 3 months late

Boost Clock1379MHz

Lower TDP (20W vs 200W)

AMD Radeon HD 6950 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (160.0GB/s vs 16.80GB/s)

1024 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 1030 DDR4

1.059 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6950 +112%

2.253 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 1030 DDR4

VS

Radeon HD 6950

Graphics Card

Mar 2018

Release Date

Dec 2010

GeForce 10

Generation

Northern Islands

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

1250 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

DDR4

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

256bit

16.80GB/s

Bandwidth

160.0GB/s

Render Config

3

SM Count

-

Compute Units

22

384

Shading Units

1408

24

TMUs

88

16

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

8 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

22.06 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

25.60 GPixel/s

33.10 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

70.40 GTexel/s

16.55 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

1059 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.253 TFLOPS

33.10 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

563.2 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GP108

GPU Name

Cayman

GP108-310-A1

GPU Variant

Cayman PRO (215-0807019)

Pascal

Architecture

TeraScale 3

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

40 nm

1.8 billion

Transistors

2.64 billion

74 mm²

Die Size

389 mm²

Board Design

20W

TDP

200W

200 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

None

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

11.2 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.4

3.0

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

N/A

6.1

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

5.0

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