Nvidia GTX 1630 Review ft. Palit

Starting with a look at the Palit GTX 1630 Dual, this ships in a black box, with a large Palit logo written in gold text. On the back, Palit highlights some key features of the GPU in multi-lingual text.

The only included accessory is a small user manual.

As for the card itself, this is an extremely diminutive model that is not much longer than the x16 PCIe connector. It measures 170 x 112 x 40 mm and only weighs 414 grams on my scales.

Despite that, Palit has still managed to squeeze in two fans – hence the name, Dual – and these measure 80mm each. Considering the 75W rated power draw of the GTX 1630, I have no doubt that this will be absolutely fine for cooling purposes.

We can also see Palit using a pretty plain black plastic shroud for the card. It's not especially fancy but doesn't feel overly cheap or flimsy, so I can't complain.

GeForce GTX branding takes pride of place on the front side of the card, while – as expected – there is no backplate used, instead we get a direct view of the back of the PCB.

Somewhat bizarrely, Palit has opted to fit the GTX 1630 Dual with an auxiliary PCIe 6-pin power connector. This is somewhat baffling to me as the 1630 has a TGP of 75W, and you can’t even raise the power limit in something like MSI Afterburner – it’s locked at 75W, so the PCIe slot alone should be able to deliver all the power the card needs.

I asked Palit why they added the 6-pin and they told me, and I quote, that ‘it is more stable to get the power through 6-pin power connector instead of pcie slot.' I don’t quite understand that as Palit themselves also makes a GTX 1650 with no extra power connector – which I know works fine as I reviewed it myself!

Lastly, we can note three display outputs – two DisplayPort 1.4 and one HDMI 2.0.

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