NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 DDR4
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB and 2GB VRAM GeForce GT 1030 DDR4 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.
Main Differences
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB 's Advantages
Boost Clock has increased by 24% (1708MHz vs 1379MHz)
More VRAM (3GB vs 2GB)
Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.2GB/s vs 16.80GB/s)
768 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 DDR4 's Advantages
Released 1 years and 7 months late
Lower TDP (20W vs 120W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB
+271%
3.935 TFLOPS
GeForce GT 1030 DDR4
1.059 TFLOPS
3DMark Time Spy
GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB
+505%
3863
GeForce GT 1030 DDR4
638
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB
+900%
1771
GeForce GT 1030 DDR4
177
Blender
GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB
+95%
188
GeForce GT 1030 DDR4
96
OctaneBench
GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB
+300%
76
GeForce GT 1030 DDR4
19
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p
GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB
+650%
15
GeForce GT 1030 DDR4
2
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p
GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB
+314%
29
GeForce GT 1030 DDR4
7
Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p
GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB
+266%
44
GeForce GT 1030 DDR4
12
Battlefield 5 2160p
GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB
+2400%
25
GeForce GT 1030 DDR4
1
Battlefield 5 1440p
GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB
+170%
46
GeForce GT 1030 DDR4
17
Battlefield 5 1080p
GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB
+204%
67
GeForce GT 1030 DDR4
22
Graphics Card
Aug 2016
Release Date
Mar 2018
GeForce 10
Generation
GeForce 10
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x4
Clock Speeds
1506 MHz
Base Clock
1152 MHz
1708 MHz
Boost Clock
1379 MHz
2002 MHz
Memory Clock
1050 MHz
Memory
3GB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
DDR4
192bit
Memory Bus
64bit
192.2GB/s
Bandwidth
16.80GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
9
SM Count
3
1152
Shading Units
384
72
TMUs
24
48
ROPs
16
-
-
-
-
-
-
48 KB (per SM)
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SM)
1536 KB
L2 Cache
512 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
81.98 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
22.06 GPixel/s
123.0 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
33.10 GTexel/s
61.49 GFLOPS
FP16 (half)
16.55 GFLOPS
3.935 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1059 GFLOPS
123.0 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
33.10 GFLOPS
Board Design
120W
TDP
20W
300 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
3x DisplayPort 1.4a
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GP106
GPU Name
GP108
GP106-300-A1
GPU Variant
GP108-310-A1
Pascal
Architecture
Pascal
TSMC
Foundry
Samsung
16 nm
Process Size
14 nm
4.4 billion
Transistors
1.8 billion
200 mm²
Die Size
74 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (12_1)
DirectX
12 (12_1)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.3
Vulkan
1.3
6.1
CUDA
6.1
6.4
Shader Model
6.4
