NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 DDR4

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 DDR4

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3070 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 RTX 3070 's Advantages

Released 2 years and 6 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 25% (1725MHz vs 1379MHz)

More VRAM (8GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (448.0GB/s vs 16.80GB/s)

5504 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 DDR4 's Advantages

Lower TDP (20W vs 220W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce RTX 3070 +1817%

20.31 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 1030 DDR4

1.059 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce RTX 3070 +2095%

13637

GeForce GT 1030 DDR4

621

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce RTX 3070 +2550%

53

GeForce GT 1030 DDR4

2

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce RTX 3070 +1257%

95

GeForce GT 1030 DDR4

7

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce RTX 3070 +1100%

144

GeForce GT 1030 DDR4

12

Battlefield 5 2160p

GeForce RTX 3070 +8000%

81

GeForce GT 1030 DDR4

1

Battlefield 5 1440p

GeForce RTX 3070 +729%

141

GeForce GT 1030 DDR4

17

Battlefield 5 1080p

GeForce RTX 3070 +754%

188

GeForce GT 1030 DDR4

22

GeForce RTX 3070

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GeForce GT 1030 DDR4

Graphics Card

Sep 2020

Release Date

Mar 2018

GeForce 30

Generation

GeForce 10

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 4.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x4

Clock Speeds

1500 MHz

Base Clock

1152 MHz

1725 MHz

Boost Clock

1379 MHz

1750 MHz

Memory Clock

1050 MHz

Memory

8GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

DDR4

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

448.0GB/s

Bandwidth

16.80GB/s

Render Config

46

SM Count

3

-

Compute Units

-

5888

Shading Units

384

184

TMUs

24

96

ROPs

16

184

Tensor Cores

-

46

RT Cores

-

128 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

4 MB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

165.6 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

22.06 GPixel/s

317.4 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

33.10 GTexel/s

20.31 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

16.55 GFLOPS

20.31 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1059 GFLOPS

317.4 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

33.10 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GA104

GPU Name

GP108

GA104-300-A1

GPU Variant

GP108-310-A1

Ampere

Architecture

Pascal

Samsung

Foundry

Samsung

8 nm

Process Size

14 nm

17.4 billion

Transistors

1.8 billion

392 mm²

Die Size

74 mm²

Board Design

220W

TDP

20W

550 W

Suggested PSU

200 W

1x HDMI 2.1 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0

1x 12-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Features

12 Ultimate (12_2)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

8.6

CUDA

6.1

6.6

Shader Model

6.4

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