GeForce GT 1030 and GeForce GT 555M 2 GB - video card comparison

GeForce GT 1030

GeForce GT 555M 2 GB

Architecture

Pascal (2016−2021)

Fermi 2.0 (2010−2014)

GPU code name

N17P-G1

GF116

Market segment

Desktop

Release date

May 2017

March 2012

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x4

PCIe 2.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

None

Boost clock speed

1670 MHz

Core clock speed

1228 MHz

675 MHz

Floating-point performance

1,127 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

14 nm

40 nm

Number of transistors

1,800 million

1,170 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

384

144

Power consumption (TDP)

30 Watt

35 Watt

Texture fill rate

35.23

16.20

Memory type

GDDR5

DDR3

Maximum RAM amount

4 GB

2 GB

Memory bus width

64 Bit

128 Bit

Memory clock speed

6000 MHz

1800 MBps

Memory bandwidth

48.06 GB/s

28.8 GB/s

Shared memory

Display Connectors

1x DVI, 1x HDMI

Portable Device Dependent

HDMI

G-SYNC support

DirectX

12 (12_1)

12 (11_0)

CUDA

6.1

2.1

OpenCL

1.2

1.1

OpenGL

4.6

Shader Model

6.4

5.1

Vulkan

1.2.131

N/A

VR Ready