GeForce GT 1030 vs FirePro D500

Place in performance ranking	395	541
Place by popularity	not in top-100	29
Cost-effectiveness evaluation	2.63	2.57
Architecture	GCN 1.0 (2012−2020)	Pascal (2016−2021)
GPU code name	Tahiti	N17P-G1
Market segment	Workstation	Desktop
Release date	18 January 2014 (10 years ago)	17 May 2017 (7 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)	no data	$79
Current price	$475	$137 (1.7x MSRP)

Cost-effectiveness evaluation

Performance to price ratio. The higher, the better.

FirePro D500 has 2% better value for money than GT 1030.

Detailed specifications

General performance parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. These parameters indirectly speak of performance, but for precise assessment you have to consider their benchmark and gaming test results. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores	1536	384
Core clock speed	725 MHz	1228 MHz
Boost clock speed	no data	1670 MHz
Number of transistors	4,313 million	1,800 million
Manufacturing process technology	28 nm	14 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	274 Watt	30 Watt
Texture fill rate	69.60	35.23
Floating-point performance	2,227 gflops	1,127 gflops

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

Interface	PCIe 3.0 x16	PCIe 3.0 x4
Length	279 mm	145 mm
Width	2-slot	1-slot
Supplementary power connectors	no data	None

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory type	GDDR5	GDDR5
Maximum RAM amount	3 GB	4 GB
Memory bus width	384 Bit	64 Bit
Memory clock speed	5080 MHz	6000 MHz
Memory bandwidth	243.8 GB/s	48.06 GB/s
Shared memory	no data	-

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors	6x mini-DisplayPort, 1x SDI	1x DVI, 1x HDMI
HDMI	no data	+
G-SYNC support	no data	+

Supported technologies

Supported technological solutions. This information will prove useful if you need some particular technology for your purposes.

VR Ready

no data

API compatibility

List of supported graphics and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX	12 (11_1)	12 (12_1)
Shader Model	5.1	6.4
OpenGL	4.6	4.6
OpenCL	1.2	1.2
Vulkan	1.2.131	1.2.131
CUDA	no data	6.1

Gaming performance

Let's see how good the compared graphics cards are for gaming. Particular gaming benchmark results are measured in FPS.

Average FPS across all PC games

Here are the average frames per second in a large set of popular games across different resolutions:

Full HD	40−45 +60%	25 −60%
1440p	35−40 +66.7%	21 −66.7%
4K	14−16 +55.6%	9 −55.6%

Pros & cons summary

Performance score	10.70	6.39
Recency	18 January 2014	17 May 2017
Maximum RAM amount	3 GB	4 GB
Chip lithography	28 nm	14 nm
Power consumption (TDP)	274 Watt	30 Watt