NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 DDR4
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 950 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 GTX 950 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (105.8GB/s vs 16.80GB/s)
384 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 DDR4 's Advantages
Released 2 years and 7 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 16% (1379MHz vs 1188MHz)
Lower TDP (20W vs 90W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 950
+72%
1.825 TFLOPS
GeForce GT 1030 DDR4
1.059 TFLOPS
3DMark Time Spy
GeForce GTX 950
+198%
1903
GeForce GT 1030 DDR4
638
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
GeForce GTX 950
+123%
396
GeForce GT 1030 DDR4
177
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p
GeForce GTX 950
+150%
5
GeForce GT 1030 DDR4
2
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p
GeForce GTX 950
+185%
20
GeForce GT 1030 DDR4
7
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p
GeForce GTX 950
+150%
30
GeForce GT 1030 DDR4
12
Graphics Card
Aug 2015
Release Date
Mar 2018
GeForce 900
Generation
GeForce 10
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x4
Clock Speeds
1024 MHz
Base Clock
1152 MHz
1188 MHz
Boost Clock
1379 MHz
1653 MHz
Memory Clock
1050 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
DDR4
128bit
Memory Bus
64bit
105.8GB/s
Bandwidth
16.80GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
-
SM Count
3
768
Shading Units
384
48
TMUs
24
32
ROPs
16
-
-
-
-
-
-
48 KB (per SMM)
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SM)
1024 KB
L2 Cache
512 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
38.02 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
22.06 GPixel/s
57.02 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
33.10 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
16.55 GFLOPS
1.825 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1059 GFLOPS
57.02 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
33.10 GFLOPS
Board Design
90W
TDP
20W
250 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GM206
GPU Name
GP108
GM206-250-A1
GPU Variant
GP108-310-A1
Maxwell 2.0
Architecture
Pascal
TSMC
Foundry
Samsung
28 nm
Process Size
14 nm
2.94 billion
Transistors
1.8 billion
228 mm²
Die Size
74 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
12 (12_1)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.3
Vulkan
1.3
5.2
CUDA
6.1
6.4
Shader Model
6.4
