NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030

Price

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$ 335.00

$ 129.95

$ 205.05 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

2077 points

198% significantly better overall score

695 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

43 FPS

28 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

15 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

34 FPS

24 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

10 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

27 FPS

17 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

10 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

27 FPS

18 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

8 FPS

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3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

3636 points

234% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score

1087 points

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

370.89 points

414% significantly higher Blender score

72.05 points

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

31129 points

202% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

10307 points

Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

13531 points

191% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Metal) score

4637 points

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

32388 points

202% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

10713 points

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

31476 points

208% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

10201 points

Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

Metal compute benchmark

13531 points

191% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Metal) score

4637 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

32365 points

226% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

9924 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

30916 points

228% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

9415 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1708 MHz

39% slightly higher core clock speed

1228 MHz

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

120 W

30 W

300% significantly lower TDP

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

205th of 586

291st 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

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

4.6

GeForce GTX 1060 vs GeForce GT 1030 benchmarks

According to the hardwareDB Benchmark, the GeForce GTX 1060 GPU is faster than the GeForce GT 1030 in gaming.

The GeForce GTX 1060 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 has a significantly lower TDP at 30 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 1060 at 120 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce GTX 1060 over the GeForce GT 1030.