GeForce GT 1030 and Switch GPU - video card comparison

GeForce GT 1030

Switch GPU

Architecture

Pascal (2016−2021)

Maxwell 2.0 (2015−2019)

GPU code name

N17P-G1

GM20B

Market segment

Desktop

Desktop

Release date

May 2017

March 2017

Interface

PCIe 3.0 x4

IGP

Supplementary power connectors

None

None

Boost clock speed

1670 MHz

768 MHz

Core clock speed

1228 MHz

-

Floating-point performance

1,127 gflops

-

Manufacturing process technology

14 nm

20 nm

Number of transistors

1,800 million

2,000 million

Pipelines / CUDA cores

384

256

Power consumption (TDP)

30 Watt

15 Watt

Texture fill rate

35.23

12.29

Memory type

GDDR5

DDR4

Maximum RAM amount

4 GB

4 GB

Memory bus width

64 Bit

64 Bit

Memory clock speed

6000 MHz

3200 MHz

Memory bandwidth

48.06 GB/s

25.6 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

5.3

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

+

-