NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 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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Price

The cheapest price from our partner retailers

$ 229.39
$ 129.95
$ 99.44 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

3653 points
425% significantly better overall score
695 points

Flux Core frame rate

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

82 FPS
67 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate
15 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

49 FPS
39 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate
10 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

60 FPS
50 FPS significantly higher City frame rate
10 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

37 FPS
29 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate
8 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

3DMark Graphics score

3DMark Graphics score

High-end graphics benchmark

5419 points
398% significantly higher 3DMark Graphics score
1087 points
Blender score

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

722.48 points
902% significantly higher Blender score
72.05 points
Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score

CUDA compute benchmark

60503 points
487% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (CUDA) score
10307 points
Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

55712 points
420% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (OpenCL) score
10713 points
Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

51028 points
400% significantly higher Geekbench 5 (Vulkan) score
10201 points
Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

59886 points
503% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score
9924 points
Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

56143 points
496% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score
9415 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1530 MHz
24% slightly higher core clock speed
1228 MHz

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1785 MHz
21% slightly higher boost clock speed
1468 MHz

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

192 Bit
200% significantly larger memory bus width
64 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

192.1 GB/s
299% significantly higher memory bandwidth
48.06 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

120 W
30 W
300% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

85.68 Gigapixels/s
264% significantly higher pixel rate
23.49 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

157.1 Gigatexels/s
345% significantly higher texture rate
35.23 Gigatexels/s

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1408
266% significantly more shading units
384

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

88
266% significantly more texture mapping units
24

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

48
200% significantly more render output processors
16

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

133rd of 586
291st of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2019 March
2017 May

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5
GDDR5

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0
12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5
4.6

GeForce GTX 1660 vs GeForce GT 1030 benchmarks

In our benchmarks, the GeForce GTX 1660 beats the GeForce GT 1030 in gaming performance.

In our comparison, the GeForce GTX 1660 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 1660 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 1660 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.

According to the results of the hardwareDB benchmark utility, the GeForce GTX 1660 is faster than the GeForce GT 1030.

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