GeForce GT 1030 and A2 - video card comparison

GeForce GT 1030

A2

Architecture

Pascal (2016−2021)

Ampere (2020−2022)

GPU code name

N17P-G1

GA107

Market segment

Desktop

Desktop

Release date

May 2017

November 2021

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x4

PCIe 4.0 x8

Supplementary power connectors

None

None

Boost clock speed

1670 MHz

1770 MHz

Core clock speed

1228 MHz

-

Floating-point performance

1,127 gflops

-

Manufacturing process technology

14 nm

8 nm

Number of transistors

1,800 million

-

Pipelines / CUDA cores

384

1280

Power consumption (TDP)

30 Watt

60 Watt

Texture fill rate

35.23

70.80

Memory type

GDDR5

GDDR6

Maximum RAM amount

4 GB

16 GB

Memory bus width

64 Bit

128 Bit

Memory clock speed

6000 MHz

12.5 GB/s

Memory bandwidth

48.06 GB/s

200.1 GB/s

Shared memory

-

-

Display Connectors

1x DVI, 1x HDMI

No outputs

HDMI

+

-

G-SYNC support

+

-

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

6.6

Vulkan

1.2.131

1.2

VR Ready

+

-