NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 vs AMD Radeon HD 6950
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GT 1030 and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6950 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 's Advantages
Released 6 years and 5 months late
Boost Clock1468MHz
Lower TDP (30W vs 200W)
AMD Radeon HD 6950 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (160.0GB/s vs 48.06GB/s)
1024 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GT 1030
1.127 TFLOPS
Radeon HD 6950
+99%
2.253 TFLOPS
Graphics Card
May 2017
Release Date
Dec 2010
GeForce 10
Generation
Northern Islands
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x4
Bus Interface
PCIe 2.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1228 MHz
Base Clock
-
1468 MHz
Boost Clock
-
1502 MHz
Memory Clock
1250 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
GDDR5
64bit
Memory Bus
256bit
48.06GB/s
Bandwidth
160.0GB/s
Render Config
-
Compute Units
22
3
SM Count
-
384
Shading Units
1408
24
TMUs
88
16
ROPs
32
-
-
-
-
-
-
48 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
8 KB (per CU)
512 KB
L2 Cache
512 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
23.49 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
25.60 GPixel/s
35.23 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
70.40 GTexel/s
17.62 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
-
1127 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
2.253 TFLOPS
35.23 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
563.2 GFLOPS
Board Design
30W
TDP
200W
200 W
Suggested PSU
550 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
Outputs
2x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2
None
Power Connectors
2x 6-pin
Graphics Processor
GP108
GPU Name
Cayman
GP108-300-A1
GPU Variant
Cayman PRO
(215-0807019)
Pascal
Architecture
TeraScale 3
Samsung
Foundry
TSMC
14 nm
Process Size
40 nm
1.8 billion
Transistors
2.64 billion
74 mm²
Die Size
389 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
11.2 (11_0)
4.6
OpenGL
4.4
3.0
OpenCL
1.2
1.3
Vulkan
N/A
6.1
CUDA
-
6.4
Shader Model
5.0
