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

Driver Notes

• All Nvidia GPUs (except GTX 1630) were benchmarked with the 516.40 driver.
• GTX 1630 was benchmarked with the 516.59 driver.
• All AMD GPUs were benchmarked with the Adrenalin 22.5.2 driver.

Test System:

We test using the a custom built system powered by MSI, based on Intel’s Alder Lake platform. You can read more about this system HERE and check out MSI on the CCL webstore HERE.

CPU	Intel Core i9-12900K
Motherboard	MSI MEG Z690 Unify
Memory	32GB (2x16GB) ADATA XPG Lancer DDR5 6000MHz CL 40-40-40
Graphics Card	Varies
SSD	2TB MSI Spatium M480
Chassis	MSI MPG Velox 100P Airflow
CPU Cooler	MSI MEG CoreLiquid S360
Power Supply	Corsair 1200W HX Series Modular 80 Plus Platinum
Operating System	Windows 11 Pro 21H2
Monitor	MSI Optix MPG321UR-QD
Resizable BAR	Enabled for all supported GPUs

Comparison Graphics Cards List

• Gigabyte GTX 1650 Gaming OC 4GB
• Nvidia GTX 1060 Founders Edition (FE) 6GB
• Palit GTX 1050 Ti StormX 4GB
• MSI RX 6400 Aero ITX 4GB
• ASUS ROG RX 570 Strix OC 4GB

All cards were tested at reference specifications.

Software and Games List

• 3DMark Fire Strike  (DX11 Synthetic)
• 3DMark Time Spy (DX12 Synthetic)
• Cyberpunk 2077 (DX12)
• Dying Light 2 (DX12)
• F1 2021 (DX12)
• Far Cry 6 (DX12)
• Final Fantasy XIV: Endwalker (DX11)
• God of War (DX11)
• Grand Theft Auto V (DX11)
• Hitman 3 (DX12)
• Rainbow Six Siege (Vulkan)
• Resident Evil Village (DX12)
• Total War: Warhammer III (DX11)
• The Witcher 3 (DX11)

We run each benchmark/game three times, and present mean averages in our graphs. We use FrameView to measure average frame rates as well as 1% low values across our three runs.

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