NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GT 1030 and 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 950 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 's Advantages

Released 1 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 24% (1468MHz vs 1188MHz)

Lower TDP (30W vs 90W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (105.8GB/s vs 48.06GB/s)

384 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 1030

1.127 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 950 +61%

1.825 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce GT 1030

1083

GeForce GTX 950 +71%

1862

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce GT 1030

1

GeForce GTX 950 +400%

5

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce GT 1030

7

GeForce GTX 950 +185%

20

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce GT 1030

12

GeForce GTX 950 +150%

30

GeForce GT 1030

VS

GeForce GTX 950

Graphics Card

May 2017

Release Date

Aug 2015

GeForce 10

Generation

GeForce 900

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x4

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1228 MHz

Base Clock

1024 MHz

1468 MHz

Boost Clock

1188 MHz

1502 MHz

Memory Clock

1653 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

128bit

48.06GB/s

Bandwidth

105.8GB/s

Render Config

-

3

SM Count

-

384

Shading Units

768

24

TMUs

48

16

ROPs

32

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

23.49 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

38.02 GPixel/s

35.23 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

57.02 GTexel/s

17.62 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

1127 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.825 TFLOPS

35.23 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

57.02 GFLOPS

Board Design

30W

TDP

90W

200 W

Suggested PSU

250 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

GP108-300-A1

GPU Variant

GM206-250-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

Related GPU Comparisons

1

NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 vs AMD Radeon HD 7470 OEM

2

NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 vs AMD Radeon R9 295X2

3

NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 vs AMD Radeon HD 6530

4

NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 vs AMD Radeon HD 8490 OEM

5

NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 vs AMD FirePro W5000 DVI

6

NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 vs NVIDIA GeForce2 Ultra

7

NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 vs NVIDIA RTX A1000

8

NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 vs AMD Radeon RX 480

9

NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5060 Mobile

10

NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 vs NVIDIA GeForce 6200

Related News

1

Intel Confirms Panther Lake Adopts 18A Process, ES0 Samples Already Sent to Customers

2

Complete Lineup of Core Ultra 200HX/H/U and Core 200H/U Revealed: 31 Models to Dazzle the Eyes

3

Amechi Unveils V1 Mini PC: Only 0.33L Volume with 150W Power Consumption

4

iPhone 17 Series Set for Major Design Overhaul: Camera Module Transformed into Sleek Strip

5

The Thinnest iPhone Ever! iPhone 17 Air Reportedly Enters Foxconn's NPI Stage

6

Apple Allegedly Cancels M4 Extreme, Originally Planned for Mac Pro with 64-Core CPU and 160-Core GPU

7

Cyberpunk 2077 Update 2.2: Intel Arrow Lake Gaming Performance Soars by 33%!

8

Intel Finally Achieves Frame Generation! 'F1 24' Becomes the First XeSS 2 Game

9

World's First! Intel Arc B580 Graphics Card Arrives Early

10

Linux Creator Criticizes AMD and Intel's x86 Microarchitecture: A Complete Disaster