NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 GK107 vs AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 GK107

AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GT 1030 GK107 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 GK107 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 8 months late

Lower TDP (65W vs 250W)

AMD Radeon HD 8970 OEM 's Advantages

More VRAM (3GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (264.0GB/s vs 80.00GB/s)

1664 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 1030 GK107

0.812 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 8970 OEM +366%

3.789 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 1030 GK107

VS

Radeon HD 8970 OEM

Graphics Card

Sep 2018

Release Date

Jan 2013

GeForce 10

Generation

Sea Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

-

1250 MHz

Memory Clock

1375 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

128bit

Memory Bus

384bit

80.00GB/s

Bandwidth

264.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

32

-

384

Shading Units

2048

32

TMUs

128

16

ROPs

32

-

16 KB (per SMX)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

256 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

8.464 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

29.60 GPixel/s

33.86 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

118.4 GTexel/s

-

812.5 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.789 TFLOPS

33.86 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

947.2 GFLOPS

Board Design

65W

TDP

250W

250 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.4a

Outputs

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

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GK107

GPU Name

Tahiti

-

GPU Variant

Tahiti XT (215-0821060)

Kepler

Architecture

GCN 1.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.27 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

118 mm²

Die Size

352 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (11_0)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

1.2

1.1

Vulkan

1.2

3.0

CUDA

-

5.1

Shader Model

5.1

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