NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 GK107

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 GK107

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 and 2GB VRAM GeForce GT 1030 GK107 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 's Advantages

Boost Clock1178MHz

More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 80.00GB/s)

1280 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 GK107 's Advantages

Released 4 years late

Lower TDP (65W vs 148W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 970 +382%

3.92 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 1030 GK107

0.812 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 970

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GeForce GT 1030 GK107

Graphics Card

Sep 2014

Release Date

Sep 2018

GeForce 900

Generation

GeForce 10

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1050 MHz

Base Clock

-

1178 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

256bit

Memory Bus

128bit

224.4GB/s

Bandwidth

80.00GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

-

Compute Units

-

1664

Shading Units

384

104

TMUs

32

56

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per SMX)

2 MB

L2 Cache

256 KB

Theoretical Performance

65.97 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

8.464 GPixel/s

122.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

33.86 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

-

3.920 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

812.5 GFLOPS

122.5 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

33.86 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

GK107

GM204-200-A1

GPU Variant

-

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

Kepler

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

28 nm

5.2 billion

Transistors

1.27 billion

398 mm²

Die Size

118 mm²

Board Design

148W

TDP

65W

300 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

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

Outputs

2x DVI 1x mini-HDMI 1.4a

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (11_0)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.1

5.2

CUDA

3.0

6.4

Shader Model

5.1

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