GeForce GTX 960M and GeForce GT 1030 DDR4 - video card comparison
GeForce GTX 960M
GeForce GT 1030 DDR4
Architecture
Maxwell (2014−2018)
Pascal (2016−2021)
GPU code name
N16P-GX
GP108
Market segment
Laptop
Desktop
Release date
March 2015
March 2018
Bus support
PCI Express 3.0
-
Interface
MXM-B (3.0)
PCIe 3.0 x4
Supplementary power connectors
-
None
SLI options
+
-
Boost clock speed
1202 MHz
1379 MHz
Core clock speed
1096 MHz
1152 MHz
CUDA cores
640
-
Floating-point performance
1,505 gflops
1,059 gflops
Manufacturing process technology
28 nm
14 nm
Number of transistors
1,870 million
1,800 million
Pipelines / CUDA cores
640
384
Power consumption (TDP)
75 Watt
20 Watt
Texture fill rate
47.04
33.10
Memory type
GDDR5
DDR4
Maximum RAM amount
4 GB
2 GB
Memory bus width
128 Bit
64 Bit
Memory clock speed
2500 MHz
2100 MHz
Memory bandwidth
80 GB/s
16.8 GB/s
Shared memory
-
-
Display Connectors
No outputs
1x DVI, 1x HDMI
VGA аnalog display support
+
-
DisplayPort Multimode (DP++) support
+
-
HDMI
+
+
DirectX
12 (11_0)
12 (12_1)
CUDA
+
6.1
OpenCL
1.2
1.2
OpenGL
4.5
4.6
Shader Model
5.1
6.4
Vulkan
1.1.126
1.2.131
Ansel
+
-
BatteryBoost
+
-
GameStream
+
-
GameWorks
+
-
GeForce ShadowPlay
+
-
GPU Boost
2.0
-
H.264, VC1, MPEG2 1080p video decoder
+
-
Optimus
+
-