NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 DDR4

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 DDR4

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 5GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 5 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 5 GB 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 24% (1709MHz vs 1379MHz)

More VRAM (5GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (160.2GB/s vs 16.80GB/s)

896 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 DDR4 's Advantages

Lower TDP (20W vs 120W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB +313%

4.375 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 1030 DDR4

1.059 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB +529%

3909

GeForce GT 1030 DDR4

621

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB +700%

16

GeForce GT 1030 DDR4

2

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB +471%

40

GeForce GT 1030 DDR4

7

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB +316%

50

GeForce GT 1030 DDR4

12

Battlefield 5 2160p

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB +2900%

30

GeForce GT 1030 DDR4

1

Battlefield 5 1440p

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB +217%

54

GeForce GT 1030 DDR4

17

Battlefield 5 1080p

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB +231%

73

GeForce GT 1030 DDR4

22

GeForce GTX 1060 5 GB

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GeForce GT 1030 DDR4

Graphics Card

Dec 2017

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

1709 MHz

Boost Clock

1379 MHz

2002 MHz

Memory Clock

1050 MHz

Memory

5GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

DDR4

160bit

Memory Bus

64bit

160.2GB/s

Bandwidth

16.80GB/s

Render Config

10

SM Count

3

-

Compute Units

-

1280

Shading Units

384

80

TMUs

24

40

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

1280 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

68.36 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

22.06 GPixel/s

136.7 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

33.10 GTexel/s

68.36 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

16.55 GFLOPS

4.375 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1059 GFLOPS

136.7 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

33.10 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GP106

GPU Name

GP108

GP106-350-K3-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

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 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

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