NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960

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NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GT 1030 and 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 25% (1468MHz vs 1178MHz)

Lower TDP (30W vs 120W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (112.2GB/s vs 48.06GB/s)

640 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 1030

1.127 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 960 +114%

2.413 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce GT 1030

1083

GeForce GTX 960 +110%

2283

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce GT 1030

1

GeForce GTX 960 +900%

10

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce GT 1030

7

GeForce GTX 960 +257%

25

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce GT 1030

12

GeForce GTX 960 +191%

35

GeForce GT 1030

VS

GeForce GTX 960

Graphics Card

May 2017

Release Date

Jan 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

1127 MHz

1468 MHz

Boost Clock

1178 MHz

1502 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

128bit

48.06GB/s

Bandwidth

112.2GB/s

Render Config

-

3

SM Count

-

384

Shading Units

1024

24

TMUs

64

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

37.70 GPixel/s

35.23 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

75.39 GTexel/s

17.62 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

1127 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.413 TFLOPS

35.23 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

75.39 GFLOPS

Board Design

30W

TDP

120W

200 W

Suggested PSU

300 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

GM206-300-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

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