NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960

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Graphics Processor

GPU model GP108 GM206
GPU variant GP108-300-A1 GM206-300-A1
Architecture Pascal Maxwell 2.0
Foundry Samsung TSMC
Manufacturing process 14 nm 28 nm
Number of transistors 1,800 million 2,940 million
Die size 74 mm² 228 mm²

Graphics Card

Release date May 17th, 2017 Jan 22nd, 2015
Generation GeForce 10 GeForce 900
Predecessor GeForce 900 GeForce 700
Successor GeForce 20 GeForce 10
Production End-of-life End-of-life
Launch price 79 USD 199 USD
Interface PCIe 3.0 x4 PCIe 3.0 x16
Reviews 6 in our database 124 in our database

Clocks

Base clock 1228 MHz 1127 MHz
Boost clock 1468 MHz 1178 MHz
Memory clock 1502 MHz 6 Gbps effective 1753 MHz 7 Gbps effective

Memory Configuration

Memory size 2 GB 2 GB
Memory type GDDR5 GDDR5
Memory bus width 64 bit 128 bit
Bandwidth 48.06 GB/s 112.2 GB/s

Render Configuration

Shading units 384 1024
TMUs 24 64
ROPs 16 32
SM count 3
Cache L1 48 KB (per SM) 48 KB (per SMM)
Cache L2 512 KB 1024 KB
SMM count 8

Performance

Pixel rate 23.49 GPixel/s 37.70 GPixel/s
Texture rate 35.23 GTexel/s 75.39 GTexel/s
FP16 (half) performance 17.62 GFLOPS (1:64)
FP32 (float) performance 1,127 GFLOPS 2.413 TFLOPS
FP64 (double) performance 35.23 GFLOPS (1:32) 75.39 GFLOPS (1:32)

Dimensions & Outputs

Slot width Single-slot Dual-slot
Length 145 mm 5.7 inches 241 mm 9.5 inches
Width 69 mm 2.7 inches
Height 18 mm 0.7 inches
TDP 30 W 120 W
Suggested PSU 200 W 300 W
Outputs 1x DVI1x HDMI 1x DVI1x HDMI3x DisplayPort
Power connectors None 1x 6-pin
Board number PG110 SKU 0 PG301

API Support & Features

DirectX 12 (12_1) 12 (12_1)
OpenGL 4.6 4.6
OpenCL 3.0 3.0
Vulkan 1.2 1.1
CUDA 6.1 5.2
Shader model 6.4 6.4

Other Features

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