NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 vs AMD Radeon HD 7950

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NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 AMD Radeon HD 7950

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GT 1030 and 3GB VRAM Radeon HD 7950 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 4 months late

Boost Clock1468MHz

Lower TDP (30W vs 200W)

AMD Radeon HD 7950 's Advantages

More VRAM (3GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (240.0GB/s vs 48.06GB/s)

1408 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GT 1030

1.127 TFLOPS

Radeon HD 7950 +154%

2.867 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce GT 1030

1083

Radeon HD 7950 +77%

1917

GeForce GT 1030

VS

Radeon HD 7950

Graphics Card

May 2017

Release Date

Jan 2012

GeForce 10

Generation

Southern Islands

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x4

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1228 MHz

Base Clock

-

1468 MHz

Boost Clock

-

1502 MHz

Memory Clock

1250 MHz

Memory

2GB

Memory Size

3GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

384bit

48.06GB/s

Bandwidth

240.0GB/s

Render Config

3

SM Count

-

Compute Units

28

384

Shading Units

1792

24

TMUs

112

16

ROPs

32

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

16 KB (per CU)

512 KB

L2 Cache

768 KB

Theoretical Performance

23.49 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

25.60 GPixel/s

35.23 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

89.60 GTexel/s

17.62 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

1127 GFLOPS

FP32 (float)

2.867 TFLOPS

35.23 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

716.8 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GP108

GPU Name

Tahiti

GP108-300-A1

GPU Variant

Tahiti PRO (215-0821056)

Pascal

Architecture

GCN 1.0

Samsung

Foundry

TSMC

14 nm

Process Size

28 nm

1.8 billion

Transistors

4.313 billion

74 mm²

Die Size

352 mm²

Board Design

30W

TDP

200W

200 W

Suggested PSU

550 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0

Outputs

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

None

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (11_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

1.2

1.3

Vulkan

1.2

6.1

CUDA

-

6.4

Shader Model

5.1

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