NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 DDR4

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960

NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 DDR4

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 960 and 2GB VRAM GeForce GT 1030 DDR4 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (112.2GB/s vs 16.80GB/s)

640 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 DDR4 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 2 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 17% (1379MHz vs 1178MHz)

Lower TDP (20W vs 120W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 960 +127%

2.413 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 1030 DDR4

1.059 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce GTX 960 +268%

2283

GeForce GT 1030 DDR4

619

Blender

GeForce GTX 960 +96%

189

GeForce GT 1030 DDR4

96

OctaneBench

GeForce GTX 960 +142%

46

GeForce GT 1030 DDR4

19

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce GTX 960 +400%

10

GeForce GT 1030 DDR4

2

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce GTX 960 +257%

25

GeForce GT 1030 DDR4

7

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce GTX 960 +191%

35

GeForce GT 1030 DDR4

12

GeForce GTX 960

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GeForce GT 1030 DDR4

Graphics Card

Jan 2015

Release Date

Mar 2018

GeForce 900

Generation

GeForce 10

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x4

Clock Speeds

1127 MHz

Base Clock

1152 MHz

1178 MHz

Boost Clock

1379 MHz

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

1050 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR4

128bit

Memory Bus

64bit

112.2GB/s

Bandwidth

16.80GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

3

1024

Shading Units

384

64

TMUs

24

32

ROPs

16

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

37.70 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

22.06 GPixel/s

75.39 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

33.10 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

16.55 GFLOPS

2.413 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1059 GFLOPS

75.39 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

33.10 GFLOPS

Board Design

120W

TDP

20W

300 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GM206

GPU Name

GP108

GM206-300-A1

GPU Variant

GP108-310-A1

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

Pascal

TSMC

Foundry

Samsung

28 nm

Process Size

14 nm

2.94 billion

Transistors

1.8 billion

228 mm²

Die Size

74 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

5.2

CUDA

6.1

6.4

Shader Model

6.4

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