NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

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NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GT 1030 and 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 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 8 months late

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

Lower TDP (30W vs 148W)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 's Advantages

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 48.06GB/s)

1280 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 1030

1.127 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 970 +247%

3.92 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce GT 1030

1083

GeForce GTX 970 +234%

3625

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce GT 1030

1

GeForce GTX 970 +1400%

15

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce GT 1030

7

GeForce GTX 970 +328%

30

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce GT 1030

12

GeForce GTX 970 +233%

40

GeForce GT 1030

VS

GeForce GTX 970

Graphics Card

May 2017

Release Date

Sep 2014

GeForce 10

Generation

GeForce 900

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x4

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1228 MHz

Base Clock

1050 MHz

1468 MHz

Boost Clock

1178 MHz

1502 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

256bit

48.06GB/s

Bandwidth

224.4GB/s

Render Config

3

SM Count

-

Compute Units

-

384

Shading Units

1664

24

TMUs

104

16

ROPs

56

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

512 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

23.49 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

65.97 GPixel/s

35.23 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

122.5 GTexel/s

17.62 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

1127 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.920 TFLOPS

35.23 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

122.5 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GP108

GPU Name

GM204

GP108-300-A1

GPU Variant

GM204-200-A1

Pascal

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.8 billion

Transistors

5.2 billion

74 mm²

Die Size

398 mm²

Board Design

30W

TDP

148W

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

2x 6-pin

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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