NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 vs AMD Radeon HD 6970

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030

AMD Radeon HD 6970

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GT 1030 and 2GB VRAM Radeon HD 6970 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 250W)

AMD Radeon HD 6970 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (176.0GB/s vs 48.06GB/s)

1152 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 1030

1.127 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 6970 +139%

2.703 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 1030

VS

Radeon HD 6970

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

1375 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

256bit

48.06GB/s

Bandwidth

176.0GB/s

Render Config

-

Compute Units

24

3

SM Count

-

384

Shading Units

1536

24

TMUs

96

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

28.16 GPixel/s

35.23 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

84.48 GTexel/s

17.62 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

1127 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.703 TFLOPS

35.23 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

675.8 GFLOPS

Board Design

30W

TDP

250W

200 W

Suggested PSU

600 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0

Outputs

2x DVI 1x HDMI 1.4a 2x mini-DisplayPort 1.2

None

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GP108

GPU Name

Cayman

GP108-300-A1

GPU Variant

Cayman XT (215-0807007)

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

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