NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 DDR4 vs AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 DDR4

AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GT 1030 DDR4 and 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 8970 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 5 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock1379MHz

Lower TDP (20W vs 250W)

AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM 's Advantages

More VRAM (3GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (264.0GB/s vs 16.80GB/s)

1664 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 1030 DDR4

1.059 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8970 OEM +257%

3.789 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 1030 DDR4

VS

Radeon HD 8970 OEM

Graphics Card

Mar 2018

Release Date

Jan 2013

GeForce 10

Generation

Sea Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x4

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1152 MHz

Base Clock

-

1379 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1050 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

3GB

DDR4

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

384bit

16.80GB/s

Bandwidth

264.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

32

3

SM Count

-

384

Shading Units

2048

24

TMUs

128

16

ROPs

32

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

22.06 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

29.60 GPixel/s

33.10 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

118.4 GTexel/s

16.55 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

1059 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.789 TFLOPS

33.10 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

947.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

20W

TDP

250W

200 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0

Outputs

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

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GP108

GPU Name

Tahiti

GP108-310-A1

GPU Variant

Tahiti XT (215-0821060)

Pascal

Architecture

GCN 1.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.8 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

74 mm²

Die Size

352 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

6.1

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

5.1

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