GeForce GT 1030 and Radeon X1950 XTX - video card comparison

GeForce GT 1030

Radeon X1950 XTX

Architecture

Pascal (2016−2021)

R500 (2005−2007)

GPU code name

N17P-G1

R580+

Market segment

Desktop

Release date

May 2017

October 2006

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x4

PCIe 1.0 x16

Supplementary power connectors

None

1x 6-pin

Boost clock speed

1670 MHz

Core clock speed

1228 MHz

650 MHz

Floating-point performance

1,127 gflops

Manufacturing process technology

14 nm

90 nm

Number of transistors

1,800 million

384 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

384

Power consumption (TDP)

30 Watt

125 Watt

Texture fill rate

35.23

10.40

Memory type

GDDR5

GDDR4

Maximum RAM amount

4 GB

512 MB

Memory bus width

64 Bit

256 Bit

Memory clock speed

6000 MHz

2000 MHz

Memory bandwidth

48.06 GB/s

64 GB/s

Shared memory

Display Connectors

1x DVI, 1x HDMI

2x DVI, 1x S-Video

HDMI

G-SYNC support

DirectX

12 (12_1)

9.0c (9_3)

CUDA

6.1

OpenCL

1.2

N/A

OpenGL

4.6

2.0

Shader Model

6.4

3.0

Vulkan

1.2.131

N/A

VR Ready