NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M

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NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M

We compared a Desktop platform GPU: 2GB VRAM GeForce GT 1030 and a Mobile platform GPU: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960M 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 2 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 25% (1468MHz vs 1176MHz)

Lower TDP (30W vs 75W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960M 's Advantages

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (80.19GB/s vs 48.06GB/s)

256 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 1030

1.127 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 960M +33%

1.505 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce GT 1030

1083

GeForce GTX 960M +13%

1231

GeForce GT 1030

VS

GeForce GTX 960M

Graphics Card

May 2017

Release Date

Mar 2015

GeForce 10

Generation

GeForce 900M

Desktop

Type

Mobile

PCIe 3.0 x4

Bus Interface

MXM-B (3.0)

Clock Speeds

1228 MHz

Base Clock

1097 MHz

1468 MHz

Boost Clock

1176 MHz

1502 MHz

Memory Clock

1253 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

128bit

48.06GB/s

Bandwidth

80.19GB/s

Render Config

-

3

SM Count

-

384

Shading Units

640

24

TMUs

40

16

ROPs

16

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SMM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

23.49 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

18.82 GPixel/s

35.23 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

47.04 GTexel/s

17.62 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

1127 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.505 TFLOPS

35.23 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

47.04 GFLOPS

Board Design

30W

TDP

75W

200 W

Suggested PSU

-

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0

Outputs

No outputs

None

Power Connectors

-

Graphics Processor

GP108

GPU Name

GM107

GP108-300-A1

GPU Variant

N16P-GX-A1

Pascal

Architecture

Maxwell

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.8 billion

Transistors

1.87 billion

74 mm²

Die Size

148 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

6.1

CUDA

5.0

6.4

Shader Model

5.1

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