GeForce GT 1030 vs GeForce GTX 660

GeForce GT 1030
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 17 May 2017
GeForce GT 1030
GeForce GTX 660
Memory: 2048Mb GDDR5DESKTOP
Release date: 6 Sep 2012
GeForce GTX 660

Summary

Reasons to consider GeForce GT 1030

110 watts lower power draw. This might be a strong point if your current power supply is not enough to handle the GeForce GTX 660 .
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Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Pascal), there may be no performance optimizations for current games and applications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 660

Higher theoretical gaming performance, based on specifications.
Supports PhysX
Supports G-Sync
Supports ShadowPlay (allows game streaming/recording with minimum performance penalty)
Based on an outdated architecture (Nvidia Kepler), there are less performance optimizations for current games and applications

GeForce GTX 660

HWBench recommends GeForce GTX 660

Based on theoretical specifications.


Specifications

Core Configuration

GeForce GT 1030GeForce GTX 660
GPU NameGP108 (GP108-300-A1)vsGK106 (GK106-400-A1)
Fab Process14 nmvs28 nm
Die Size74 mm²vs221 mm²
Transistors1,800 millionvs2,540 million
Shaders384vs960
Compute Units3vs5
Core clock1228 MHzvs980 MHz
ROPs16vs24
TMUs24vs80

Memory Configuration

GeForce GT 1030GeForce GTX 660
Memory TypeGDDR5vsGDDR5
Bus Width64 bitvs192 bit
Memory Speed1502 MHz
6008 MHz effective
vs1502 MHz
6008 MHz effective
Memory Size2048 Mbvs2048 Mb

Additional details

GeForce GT 1030GeForce GTX 660
TDP30 wattsvs140 watts
Release Date17 May 2017vs6 Sep 2012

Raw Performance comparison

Pixel Rate

  • GeForce GT 1030
    23.49 GP/s
  • GeForce GTX 660
    19.60 GP/s

GigaPixels - higher is better

Texel Rate

  • GeForce GT 1030
    35.23 GT/s
  • GeForce GTX 660
    78.40 GT/s

GigaTexels - higher is better

Memory bandwidth

  • GeForce GT 1030
    48.06 GB/s
  • GeForce GTX 660
    144.00 GB/s

GB/s - higher is better

Single precision performance

  • GeForce GT 1030
    1127.00 GFLOPs
  • GeForce GTX 660
    1882.00 GFLOPs

GFLOPs - higher is better