Nvidia GTX 1630 Review ft. Palit

1. Introduction2. Palit GTX 1630 Dual3. Testing Methodology4. 3DMark Fire Strike & Time Spy5. Cyberpunk 20776. Dying Light 27. F1 20218. Far Cry 69. Final Fantasy XIV: Endwalker10. God of War11. Grand Theft Auto V12. Hitman 313. Rainbow Six Siege14. Resident Evil Village15. Total War: Warhammer III16. The Witcher 317. Performance Summary (12-Game Average)18. Clock Speed19. GPU Temperatures20. Acoustics21. Power Draw: 1080p22. Performance per Watt: 1080p23. Total System Power Draw24. Overclocking25. Closing Thoughts26. View All Pages

Back from the grave, Nvidia has resurrected the GTX branding for its newest graphics card – the GTX 1630. Calling this ‘new' is somewhat of a stretch however, as GTX 1630 is simply a cut-down version of the GTX 1650 that launched three years ago on the Turing architecture. What sort of performance can we expect from this product? That's what we will find out today…

While the graphics card market had been in turmoil for almost the last two years, things are quickly returning to normal following the crypto crash and a steep drop in demand for GPUs. It is amidst that backdrop that Nvidia has announced the GTX 1630, although this GPU has launched with next to no fanfare and could easily have been missed.

Given the name, it is fair to assume the GTX 1630 is a successor to the GT 1030, and we certainly won't be expecting too much in terms of gaming performance from this card. With UK prices starting at £179.99 however, the GTX 1630 will have to really surprise us to justify that price point…

	GTX 1660 SUPER	GTX 1660	GTX 1650 SUPER	GTX 1650	GTX 1630
GPU	TU116	TU116	TU116	TU117	TU117
Process	TSMC 12nm	TSMC 12nm	TSMC 12nm	TSMC 12nm	TSMC 12nm
SMs	22	22	20	14	8
CUDA Cores	1408	1408	1280	896	512
Texture Units	88	88	80	56	32
ROPs	48	48	32	32	16
GPU Boost Clock	1785 MHz	1785 MHz	1725 MHz	1665 MHz	1785 MHz
Memory Data Rate	14 Gbps	8 Gbps	12 Gbps	8 Gbps	12 Gbps
Total Video Memory	6GB GDDR6	6GB GDDR5	4GB GDDR6	4GB GDDR5	4GB GDDR6
Memory Interface	192-bit	192-bit	128-bit	128-bit	64-bit
Memory Bandwidth	336 GB/sec	192.1 GB/sec	192 GB/sec	128 GB/sec	96 GB/sec
TGP	125W	120W	100W	75W	75W

First let's take a quick look at the specs. As a cut-down TU117 GPU, the same silicon that was originally used for the GTX 1650, the GTX 1630 sports a total of 8 streaming multiprocessors (SMs). Each SM houses 64 CUDA cores, giving a total of just 512.

We also find 32 texture units and 16 ROPs, while rated boost clock comes in at 1785MHz. Today we are testing the Palit Dual model, which does not ship factory overclocked.

As for the memory configuration, 4GB GDDR6 is standard for the GTX 1630, operating at 12Gbps. Over an extremely narrow 64-bit interface however, that delivers 96GB/s bandwidth, a reduction of 25% compared to the GDDR5 GTX 1650.

Lastly, despite all of its cutbacks, GTX 1630 is still rated at 75W  total graphics power, the same as the GTX 1650. This certainly seems odd based on the specs, but we are using our updated GPU power testing methodology in this review, so read on for our most detailed power and efficiency testing yet.

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