NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660M

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660M 2 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

211% significantly better overall score

223 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

15 FPS

10 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

5 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

10 FPS

7 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

3 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

10 FPS

7 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

3 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

8 FPS

6 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

2 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

10307 points

255% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

2901 points

Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

4637 points

122% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

2083 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

10713 points

193% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

3649 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

10201 points

189% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

3524 points

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

4637 points

108% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

2223 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

9924 points

148% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

3991 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

9415 points

167% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

3524 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1228 MHz

29% slightly higher core clock speed

950 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1468 MHz

54% significantly higher boost clock speed

950 MHz

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

64 Bit

128 Bit

100% significantly larger memory bus width

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

48.06 GB/s

64 GB/s

33% slightly higher memory bandwidth

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

30 W

66% significantly lower TDP

50 W

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

23.49 Gigapixels/s

209% significantly higher pixel rate

7.6 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

35.23 Gigatexels/s

15% slightly higher texture rate

30.4 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

384

Identical

384

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

33% slightly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

Identical

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

292nd of 586

414th of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2017 May

2012 March

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

11.2

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.6

4.5

GeForce GT 1030 vs GeForce GTX 660M specs and performance

For gaming, the GeForce GT 1030 graphics card is better than the GeForce GTX 660M in our tests.

Our database shows that the GeForce GT 1030 has a slightly higher core clock speed. This is the frequency at which the graphics core is running at. While not necessarily an indicator of overall performance, this metric can be useful when comparing two GPUs based on the same architecture. In addition, the GeForce GT 1030 also has a significantly 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 660M at 50 W. TDP (Thermal Design Power) measures total heat output from the chip.

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