NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660 vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 DDR4
We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 2GB VRAM GeForce GTX 660 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 660 's Advantages
Larger VRAM bandwidth (144.2GB/s vs 16.80GB/s)
576 additional rendering cores
NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 DDR4 's Advantages
Released 5 years and 6 months late
Boost Clock has increased by 34% (1379MHz vs 1032MHz)
Lower TDP (20W vs 140W)
Score
Benchmark
FP32 (float)
GeForce GTX 660
+87%
1.981 TFLOPS
GeForce GT 1030 DDR4
1.059 TFLOPS
3DMark Time Spy
GeForce GTX 660
+87%
1194
GeForce GT 1030 DDR4
638
3DMark Time Spy Extreme
GeForce GTX 660
+46%
260
GeForce GT 1030 DDR4
177
Blender
GeForce GTX 660
+15%
111
GeForce GT 1030 DDR4
96
OctaneBench
GeForce GTX 660
+42%
27
GeForce GT 1030 DDR4
19
Graphics Card
Sep 2012
Release Date
Mar 2018
GeForce 600
Generation
GeForce 10
Desktop
Type
Desktop
PCIe 3.0 x16
Bus Interface
PCIe 3.0 x4
Clock Speeds
980 MHz
Base Clock
1152 MHz
1032 MHz
Boost Clock
1379 MHz
1502 MHz
Memory Clock
1050 MHz
Memory
2GB
Memory Size
2GB
GDDR5
Memory Type
DDR4
192bit
Memory Bus
64bit
144.2GB/s
Bandwidth
16.80GB/s
Render Config
-
-
-
-
SM Count
3
960
Shading Units
384
80
TMUs
24
24
ROPs
16
-
-
-
-
-
-
16 KB (per SMX)
L1 Cache
48 KB (per SM)
384 KB
L2 Cache
512 KB
-
-
-
Theoretical Performance
20.64 GPixel/s
Pixel Rate
22.06 GPixel/s
82.56 GTexel/s
Texture Rate
33.10 GTexel/s
-
FP16 (half)
16.55 GFLOPS
1.981 TFLOPS
FP32 (float)
1059 GFLOPS
82.56 GFLOPS
FP64 (double)
33.10 GFLOPS
Board Design
140W
TDP
20W
300 W
Suggested PSU
200 W
2x DVI
1x HDMI 1.4a
1x DisplayPort 1.2
Outputs
1x DVI
1x HDMI 2.0
1x 6-pin
Power Connectors
None
Graphics Processor
GK106
GPU Name
GP108
GK106-400-A1
GPU Variant
GP108-310-A1
Kepler
Architecture
Pascal
TSMC
Foundry
Samsung
28 nm
Process Size
14 nm
2.54 billion
Transistors
1.8 billion
221 mm²
Die Size
74 mm²
Graphics Features
12 (11_0)
DirectX
12 (12_1)
4.6
OpenGL
4.6
3.0
OpenCL
3.0
1.1
Vulkan
1.3
3.0
CUDA
6.1
5.1
Shader Model
6.4
