NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1630

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1630

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 3GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB and 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1630 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

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.2GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)

640 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1630 's Advantages

Released 5 years and 10 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 5% (1785MHz vs 1708MHz)

More VRAM (4GB vs 3GB)

Lower TDP (75W vs 120W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB +115%

3.935 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1630

1.828 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB +83%

3847

GeForce GTX 1630

2102

Blender

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB +20%

341

GeForce GTX 1630

283

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB +150%

15

GeForce GTX 1630

6

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB +61%

29

GeForce GTX 1630

18

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB +46%

44

GeForce GTX 1630

30

GeForce GTX 1060 3 GB

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GeForce GTX 1630

Graphics Card

Aug 2016

Release Date

Jun 2022

GeForce 10

Generation

GeForce 16

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1506 MHz

Base Clock

1740 MHz

1708 MHz

Boost Clock

1785 MHz

2002 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

3GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

192bit

Memory Bus

64bit

192.2GB/s

Bandwidth

96.00GB/s

Render Config

9

SM Count

8

-

Compute Units

-

1152

Shading Units

512

72

TMUs

32

48

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

1536 KB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

Theoretical Performance

81.98 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

28.56 GPixel/s

123.0 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

57.12 GTexel/s

61.49 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

3.656 TFLOPS

3.935 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.828 TFLOPS

123.0 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

57.12 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GP106

GPU Name

TU117

GP106-300-A1

GPU Variant

TU117-150-KA-A1

Pascal

Architecture

Turing

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

16 nm

Process Size

12 nm

4.4 billion

Transistors

4.7 billion

200 mm²

Die Size

200 mm²

Board Design

120W

TDP

75W

300 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 1x DisplayPort 1.4a

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

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

7.5

6.4

Shader Model

6.7

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