NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB

Price

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$ 129.95

$ 159.05 significantly less expensive

$ 289.00

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

695 points

2058 points

196% significantly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

Volumetric ray casting test, a computationally expensive method of rendering high-quality scenes

15 FPS

42 FPS

27 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

10 FPS

33 FPS

23 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

10 FPS

27 FPS

16 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

8 FPS

29 FPS

21 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

72.05 points

284.61 points

295% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

10307 points

31922 points

209% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

4637 points

13527 points

191% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

10713 points

33958 points

216% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

10201 points

33939 points

232% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

4637 points

13527 points

191% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

9924 points

33375 points

236% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

9415 points

32433 points

244% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1228 MHz

1506 MHz

22% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1468 MHz

1708 MHz

16% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

64 Bit

192 Bit

200% significantly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

48.06 GB/s

192.2 GB/s

299% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

30 W

300% significantly lower TDP

120 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

23.49 Gigapixels/s

81.98 Gigapixels/s

248% significantly higher pixel rate

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

35.23 Gigatexels/s

123 Gigatexels/s

249% significantly higher texture rate

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

384

1152

200% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

200% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

200% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

291st of 586

206th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 May

2016 August

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

GeForce GT 1030 vs GeForce GTX 1060 3GB benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the GeForce GTX 1060 3GB beats the GeForce GT 1030 in gaming performance.

Our database shows that the GeForce GTX 1060 3GB has a slightly higher core clock speed. The core clock speed (or base speed) is the frequency at which the GPU core runs. This metric makes sense when comparing GPUs of a similar architecture or generation. In addition, the GeForce GTX 1060 3GB also has a slightly higher boost clock speed: the maximum frequency the chip can reach if power delivery and thermals allow.

In addition, the GeForce GT 1030 has a significantly lower TDP at 30 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 1060 3GB at 120 W. Heat output doesn't match power consumption directly but, it's a good estimate.

In terms of raw gaming performance in our GPU benchmark, the GeForce GTX 1060 3GB is better than the GeForce GT 1030.