GeForce GTX 970 vs GeForce GT 1030 DDR4
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 and 2GB VRAM GeForce GT 1030 DDR4 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
GeForce GTX 970 Advantages
More VRAM (4GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 16.80GB/s)
1280 additional rendering cores
GeForce GT 1030 DDR4 Advantages
Released 3 years and 6 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 17% (1379MHz vs 1178MHz)
Lower TDP (20W vs 148W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 970
+270%
3920
GeForce GT 1030 DDR4
1059
3DMark Time Spy
GeForce GTX 970
+471%
3646
GeForce GT 1030 DDR4
638
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
GeForce GTX 970
+850%
1683
GeForce GT 1030 DDR4
177
Blender
GeForce GTX 970
+217%
305
GeForce GT 1030 DDR4
96
OctaneBench
GeForce GTX 970
+305%
77
GeForce GT 1030 DDR4
19
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p
GeForce GTX 970
+650%
15
GeForce GT 1030 DDR4
2
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p
GeForce GTX 970
+328%
30
GeForce GT 1030 DDR4
7
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p
GeForce GTX 970
+233%
40
GeForce GT 1030 DDR4
12
Graphics Card
Sep 2014
Release Date
Mar 2018
GeForce 900
Generation
GeForce 10
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x4
Clock Speeds
1050 MHz
Base Clock
1152 MHz
1178 MHz
Boost Clock
1379 MHz
1753 MHz
Memory Clock
1050 MHz
Memory
4GB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
DDR4
256bit
Memory Bus
64bit
224.4GB/s
Bandwidth
16.80GB/s
Render Config
-
SM Count
3
1664
Shading Units
384
104
TMUs
24
56
ROPs
16
48 KB (per SMM)
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SM)
2 MB
L2 Cache
512 KB
Theoretical Performance
65.97 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
22.06 GPixel/s
122.5 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
33.10 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
16.55 GFLOPS
3.920 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1059 GFLOPS
122.5 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
33.10 GFLOPS
Board Design
148W
TDP
20W
300 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
1x HDMI 2.0
2x 6-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GM204
GPU Name
GP108
GM204-200-A1
GPU Variant
GP108-310-A1
Maxwell 2.0
Architecture
Pascal
TSMC
Foundry
Samsung
28 nm
Process Size
14 nm
5.2 billion
Transistors
1.8 billion
398 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
