NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 3 GB, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

695 points

816 points

17% slightly better overall score

Flux Core frame rate

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

15 FPS

18 FPS

3 FPS slightly higher Flux Core frame rate

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

10 FPS

11 FPS

1 FPS slightly higher Electron frame rate

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

10 FPS

13 FPS

2 FPS slightly higher City frame rate

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

8 FPS

9 FPS

1 FPS slightly higher Clouds frame rate

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

1087 points

1317 points

21% slightly higher 3DMark Graphics score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

72.05 points

122.56 points

70% significantly higher Blender score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

10307 points

20% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

8583 points

Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

4637 points

5449 points

17% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

10713 points

11381 points

6% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

10201 points

10693 points

4% slightly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

4637 points

7% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

4311 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

9924 points

11353 points

14% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

9415 points

11858 points

25% slightly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1228 MHz

25% slightly higher core clock speed

980 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1468 MHz

42% slightly higher boost clock speed

1032 MHz

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

144.2 GB/s

200% significantly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

30 W

366% significantly lower TDP

140 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

23.49 Gigapixels/s

13% slightly higher pixel rate

20.64 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

35.23 Gigatexels/s

82.56 Gigatexels/s

134% significantly higher texture rate

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

384

960

150% significantly more shading units

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

233% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

49% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

291st of 586

276th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

11.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

4.5

GeForce GT 1030 vs GeForce GTX 660 specs and performance

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce GTX 660 GPU is faster than the GeForce GT 1030 in gaming.

The GeForce GT 1030 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 GT 1030 also has a slightly higher boost clock speed. The boost clock speed is the frequency that the GPU core can reach if the temperature is low enough. The allows for higher performance in certain scenarios.

In addition, the GeForce GT 1030 has a significantly lower TDP at 30 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 660 at 140 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce GTX 660 is faster than the GeForce GT 1030.