GeForce GT 1030 vs GeForce GTX 1060

GeForce GT 1030
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 17 May 2017
GeForce GT 1030
GeForce GTX 1060
Memory: 6144Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 10 Jul 2016
GeForce GTX 1060

Summary

Reasons to consider GeForce GT 1030

90 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce GTX 1060 .
This is a much newer product, it might have better long term support.
Supports PhysX
Supports G-Sync
Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Pascal), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

Reasons to consider GeForce GTX 1060

Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications.
Supports PhysX
Supports G-Sync
Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Supports Direct3D 12 Async Compute
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Pascal), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications

GeForce GTX 1060

HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 1060

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GT 1030GeForce GTX 1060
GPU NameGP108 (GP108-300-A1)vsGP106 (GP106-400-A1)
Fab Process14 nmvs16 nm
Die Size74 mm²vs200 mm²
Transistors1,800 millionvs4,400 million
Shaders384vs1280
Compute Units3vs10
Core clock1228 MHzvs1506 MHz
ROPs16vs48
TMUs24vs80

Memory Configuration

GeForce GT 1030GeForce GTX 1060
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width64 bitvs192 bit
Memory Speed1502 MHz
6008 MHz effective
vs2002 MHz
8008 MHz effective
Memory Size2048 Mbvs6144 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GT 1030GeForce GTX 1060
TDP30 wattsvs120 watts
Release Date17 May 2017vs10 Jul 2016

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GT 1030
    23.49 GP/s
  • GeForce GTX 1060
    72.30 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GT 1030
    35.23 GT/s
  • GeForce GTX 1060
    120.50 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GT 1030
    48.06 GB/s
  • GeForce GTX 1060
    192.20 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GT 1030
    1127.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GTX 1060
    3855.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better