GeForce GT 1030 DDR4 vs GeForce RTX 3070
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GT 1030 DDR4 and 8GB VRAM GeForce RTX 3070 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce GT 1030 DDR4 's Advantages
Lower TDP (20W vs 220W)
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
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GT 1030 DDR4
1059
GeForce RTX 3070
+1817%
20310
3DMark Time Spy
GeForce GT 1030 DDR4
638
GeForce RTX 3070
+2038%
13641
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
GeForce GT 1030 DDR4
177
GeForce RTX 3070
+3720%
6762
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p
GeForce GT 1030 DDR4
2
GeForce RTX 3070
+2550%
53
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p
GeForce GT 1030 DDR4
7
GeForce RTX 3070
+1257%
95
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p
GeForce GT 1030 DDR4
12
GeForce RTX 3070
+1100%
144
Battlefield 5 2160p
GeForce GT 1030 DDR4
1
GeForce RTX 3070
+8000%
81
Battlefield 5 1440p
GeForce GT 1030 DDR4
17
GeForce RTX 3070
+729%
141
Battlefield 5 1080p
GeForce GT 1030 DDR4
22
GeForce RTX 3070
+754%
188
Graphics Card
Mar 2018
Release Date
Sep 2020
GeForce 10
Generation
GeForce 30
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x4
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1152 MHz
Base Clock
1500 MHz
1379 MHz
Boost Clock
1725 MHz
1050 MHz
Memory Clock
1750 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
8GB
DDR4
Memory Type
GDDR6
64bit
Memory Bus
256bit
16.80GB/s
Bandwidth
448.0GB/s
Render Config
3
SM Count
46
384
Shading Units
5888
24
TMUs
184
16
ROPs
96
-
Tensor Cores
184
-
RT Cores
46
48 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
128 KB (per SM)
512 KB
L2 Cache
4 MB
Theoretical Performance
22.06 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
165.6 GPixel/s
33.10 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
317.4 GTexel/s
16.55 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
20.31 TFLOPS
1059 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
20.31 TFLOPS
33.10 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
317.4 GFLOPS
Board Design
20W
TDP
220W
200 W
Suggested PSU
550 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
Outputs
1x HDMI 2.1
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
None
Power Connectors
1x 12-pin
Graphics Processor
GP108
GPU Name
GA104
GP108-310-A1
GPU Variant
GA104-300-A1
Pascal
Architecture
Ampere
Samsung
Foundry
Samsung
14 nm
Process Size
8 nm
1.8 billion
Transistors
17.4 billion
74 mm²
Die Size
392 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
12 Ultimate (12_2)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.3
Vulkan
1.3
6.1
CUDA
8.6
6.4
Shader Model
6.6
