
GeForce GTX 960 OEM and GeForce GT 1030 DDR4 - video card comparison
GeForce GTX 960 OEM
GeForce GT 1030 DDR4
Architecture
Maxwell 2.0 (2015−2019)
Pascal (2016−2021)
GPU code name
GM206
GP108
Market segment
Desktop
Desktop
Release date
November 2015
March 2018
Interface
PCIe 3.0 x16
PCIe 3.0 x4
Supplementary power connectors
None
None
Boost clock speed
1201 MHz
1379 MHz
Core clock speed
924 MHz
1152 MHz
Floating-point performance
2,460 gflops
1,059 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
14 nm
Number of transistors
2,940 million
1,800 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
1024
384
Power consumption (TDP)
-
20 Watt
Texture fill rate
76.86
33.10
Memory type
GDDR5
DDR4
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
2 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
7012 MHz
2100 MHz
Memory bandwidth
112.2 GB/s
16.8 GB/s
Display Connectors
No outputs
1x DVI, 1x HDMI
HDMI
-
+
DirectX
12 (12_1)
12 (12_1)
CUDA
5.2
6.1
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
OpenGL
4.6
4.6
Shader Model
6.4
6.4
Vulkan
1.1.126
1.2.131