The NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 is equipped with a graphics chip of the Pascal architecture, which has 3 streaming multiprocessors.
The graphics card NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 is based on the Maxwell 2.0 architecture and is equipped with 8 execution units.
Memory
Memory
NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960
Memory Size
2 GB
2 GB
Memory Type
GDDR5
GDDR5
Memory Clock
1.502 GHz
1.753 GHz
Memory Speed
6.0 Gbps
7.0 Gbps
Memory bandwidth
48 GB/s
112 GB/s
Memory Interface
64 bit
128 bit
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The NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 is equipped with a 2 GB large GDDR5 graphics memory, which is equipped with 1.502 GHz clocks.
The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 has a 2 GB large GDDR5 graphics memory and the memory clock is 1.753GHz.
Clock Speeds
Clock Speeds
NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960
Base Clock
1.228 GHz
1.127 GHz
Boost Clock
1.468 GHz
1.178 GHz
Overclocking
Yes
Yes
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The NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 has a turbo clock of 1.468 GHz. The turbo frequency of the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 is 1.178 GHz.
Thermal Design
Thermal Design
NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960
TDP
30 W
120 W
Tjunction max
97 °C
98 °C
PCIe-Power
--
1 x 6-Pin
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The NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 has -- connectors through which it is supplied with power. The manufacturer specifies the maximum operating temperature of the graphics card as 97 °C.
The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 is equipped with a 1 x 6-Pin PCIe power connector that supplies it with power. The maximum operating temperature of the card is 98 °C.
Cooler & Fans
Cooler & Fans
NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960
Fan-Type
Axial
Radial
Fan 1
--
1 x 65 mm
Cooler-Type
Air cooling
Air cooling
Noise (Idle)
--
0 dB
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The graphics processor and graphics memory of the NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 are cooled with a Air cooling.
The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 is cooled by a Air cooling.
Connectivity
Connectivity
NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960
Max. Displays
2
4
HDCP
2.2
2.2
HDMI
1x HDMI 2.0b
1x HDMI 2.0
DisplayPort
--
3x DP 1.2
DVI
1
1
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The NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 supports the downward compatible copy protection HDCP in version 2.2.
The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 supports HDCP in version 2.2 and all previous versions.
Featureset
Featureset
NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960
Max. resolution
7680x4320
4096x2160
DirectX
12_1
12_1
Raytracing
No
No
DLSS / FSR
Yes
No
LED
No LED lighting
No LED lighting
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The NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 supports the DirectX standard from Microsoft in version 12_1.
The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 supports Microsoft's DirectX version 12_1.
Supported Video Codecs
Supported Video Codecs
NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960
h264
Decode
Decode / Encode
h265 / HEVC
Decode
No
VP8
No
Decode
VP9
Decode
No
AV1
No
No
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This area lists which video codecs can be decoded or encoded by the graphics cards in hardware. As a result, the power consumption can be reduced due to a lower processor load.
Dimensions
Dimensions
NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960
Length
--
241 mm
Width (Slots)
1 Slots
2 Slots
SFF-Ready
No
No
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The NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 is -- wide and therefore needs the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the case.
The width of the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 is -- and thus requires the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the PC case.
Additional data
Additional data
NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960
GPU Interface
PCIe 3.0 x 4
PCIe 3 x 16
Release date
Q2/2017
Q1/2015
Launch Price
79 $
199 $
Structure size
14 nm
28 nm
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Manufactured using the 14 nanometer process, NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 was released in Q2/2017.
The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 960 published in Q1/2015 is manufactured with a structure width of 28 nanometers.
3DMark is a benchmark program that determines the performance of certain components of a computer and then reports the performance as a numerical value.
Geekbench 6 is a cross-platform benchmark for main processors, which also carries out 3 different graphics benchmarks and outputs them in the form of a numerical value.
The theoretical computing power of the graphics card with single precision (32 bit) in TFLOPS indicates how many trillion FP32 floating point operations the graphics card (GPU) can perform per second.
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