NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 DDR4 vs NVIDIA A30 PCIe
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GT 1030 DDR4 and 24GB VRAM A30 PCIe to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 DDR4 's Advantages
Lower TDP (20W vs 165W)
NVIDIA A30 PCIe 's Advantages
Released 3 years and 1 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 4% (1440MHz vs 1379MHz)
More VRAM (24GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (933.1GB/s vs 16.80GB/s)
3200 additional rendering cores
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GT 1030 DDR4
1.059 TFLOPS
A30 PCIe
+874%
10.32 TFLOPS
Blender
GeForce GT 1030 DDR4
96
A30 PCIe
+2020%
2036
Graphics Card
Mar 2018
Release Date
Apr 2021
GeForce 10
Generation
Tesla Ampere
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x4
Bus Interface
PCIe 4.0 x16
Clock Speeds
1152 MHz
Base Clock
930 MHz
1379 MHz
Boost Clock
1440 MHz
1050 MHz
Memory Clock
1215 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
24GB
DDR4
Memory Type
HBM2e
64bit
Memory Bus
3072bit
16.80GB/s
Bandwidth
933.1GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
3
SM Count
56
384
Shading Units
3584
24
TMUs
224
16
ROPs
96
-
Tensor Cores
224
-
-
-
48 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
192 KB (per SM)
512 KB
L2 Cache
24 MB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
22.06 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
138.2 GPixel/s
33.10 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
322.6 GTexel/s
16.55 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
10.32 TFLOPS
1059 GFLOPS
FP32 (float)
10.32 TFLOPS
33.10 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
5.161 TFLOPS
Board Design
20W
TDP
165W
200 W
Suggested PSU
450 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
Outputs
No outputs
None
Power Connectors
8-pin EPS
Graphics Processor
GP108
GPU Name
GA100
GP108-310-A1
GPU Variant
-
Pascal
Architecture
Ampere
Samsung
Foundry
TSMC
14 nm
Process Size
7 nm
1.8 billion
Transistors
54.2 billion
74 mm²
Die Size
826 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
N/A
4.6
OpenGL
N/A
3.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.3
Vulkan
N/A
6.1
CUDA
8.0
6.4
Shader Model
N/A
