GeForce GT 1030 DDR4 and RTX A500 - video card comparison
GeForce GT 1030 DDR4
RTX A500
Architecture
Pascal (2016−2021)
Ampere (2020−2022)
GPU code name
GP108
GA107
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
March 2018
November 2021
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x4
PCIe 4.0 x8
Supplementary power connectors
None
None
Boost clock speed
1379 MHz
1770 MHz
Core clock speed
1152 MHz
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Floating-point performance
1,059 gflops
-
Manufacturing process technology
14 nm
8 nm
Number of transistors
1,800 million
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Pipelines / CUDA cores
384
2048
Power consumption (TDP)
20 Watt
60 Watt
Texture fill rate
33.10
113.3
Memory type
DDR4
GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount
2 GB
4 GB
Memory bus width
64 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
2100 MHz
14 GB/s
Memory bandwidth
16.8 GB/s
112.0 GB/s
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x HDMI
No outputs
HDMI
+
-
DirectX
12 (12_1)
12 Ultimate (12_2)
CUDA
6.1
8.6
OpenCL
1.2
3.0
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
6.4
6.7
Vulkan
1.2.131
1.3