GeForce GT 1030 and GeForce GTX 960 OEM - video card comparison
GeForce GT 1030
GeForce GTX 960 OEM
Architecture
Pascal (2016−2021)
Maxwell 2.0 (2015−2019)
GPU code name
N17P-G1
GM206
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
May 2017
November 2015
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x4
PCIe 3.0 x16
Supplementary power connectors
None
None
Boost clock speed
1670 MHz
1201 MHz
Core clock speed
1228 MHz
924 MHz
Floating-point performance
1,127 gflops
2,460 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
14 nm
28 nm
Number of transistors
1,800 million
2,940 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
384
1024
Power consumption (TDP)
30 Watt
-
Texture fill rate
35.23
76.86
Memory type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
4 GB
Memory bus width
64 Bit
128 Bit
Memory clock speed
6000 MHz
7012 MHz
Memory bandwidth
48.06 GB/s
112.2 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
1x DVI, 1x HDMI
No outputs
HDMI
+
-
G-SYNC support
+
-
DirectX
12 (12_1)
12 (12_1)
CUDA
6.1
5.2
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
6.4
6.4
Vulkan
1.2.131
1.1.126
VR Ready
+
-