NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB and 2GB VRAM GeForce GT 1030 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 16% (1709MHz vs 1468MHz)

More VRAM (6GB vs 2GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (192.2GB/s vs 48.06GB/s)

896 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 's Advantages

Released 10 months late

Lower TDP (30W vs 120W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB +288%

4.375 TFLOPS

GeForce GT 1030

1.127 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB +288%

4204

GeForce GT 1030

1083

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB +800%

9

GeForce GT 1030

1

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB +357%

32

GeForce GT 1030

7

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB +316%

50

GeForce GT 1030

12

Battlefield 5 2160p

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB +2600%

27

GeForce GT 1030

1

Battlefield 5 1440p

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB +194%

50

GeForce GT 1030

17

Battlefield 5 1080p

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB +236%

74

GeForce GT 1030

22

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB

VS

GeForce GT 1030

Graphics Card

Jul 2016

Release Date

May 2017

GeForce 10

Generation

GeForce 10

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x4

Clock Speeds

1506 MHz

Base Clock

1228 MHz

1709 MHz

Boost Clock

1468 MHz

2002 MHz

Memory Clock

1502 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

2GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR5

192bit

Memory Bus

64bit

192.2GB/s

Bandwidth

48.06GB/s

Render Config

10

SM Count

3

-

Compute Units

-

1280

Shading Units

384

80

TMUs

24

48

ROPs

16

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SM)

1536 KB

L2 Cache

512 KB

Theoretical Performance

82.03 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

23.49 GPixel/s

136.7 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

35.23 GTexel/s

68.36 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

17.62 GFLOPS

4.375 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1127 GFLOPS

136.7 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

35.23 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

GP106

GPU Name

GP108

GP106-400-A1

GPU Variant

GP108-300-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

30W

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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