It’s a bit embarrassing for NVIDIA to launch the GTX 1630 entry-level graphics card at this time. Originally, this card was originally rumored to be released at the end of May, but it was delayed until NVIDIA officially announced its launch earlier, and I don’t know if it was because the price was too high or for other reasons. This time NVIDIA did not give the GTX 1630. The official suggested price, in any case, this card has been tested by foreign media, and it is the same as the specification. The performance is very entry-level, even slower than the AMD Radeon RX 6400.
NVIDIA’s new entry-level graphics card GTX 1630 has been tested by foreign media
After NVIDIA announced the official launch of the GTX 1630, the foreign media TechPowerUP also disclosed the performance measurement of the GTX 1630. This card uses the same Turing architecture as the GTX 1650. It uses TU 117 GPU and 512 CUDA cores. There are fewer CUDA cores than the 1650. However, it is equipped with GDDR6 4GB memory, and the graphics card’s highest clock can reach 1785MHz.
The test platform used is as follows:
- Processor: AMD Ryzen 7 5800X
- Motherboard: EVGA X570 Dark
- Memory: 16GB DDR4 4000MHz
- Hard Drives: 2 Neo Frza NFP455 2TB M.2 NVMe SSDs
- Operating System: Windows 10 Pro 64-bit
TechPowerUP has tested a total of 25 3A game masterpieces, and I will not list them one by one here, but directly look at the average FPS arrangement chart. It can be seen that the performance of this card is really introductory, even with 1920×1080 Full HD picture quality, it can only run to 24 FPS on average, and “Last Battle: Infinite” even only has 10FPS:
This performance is not only a lot lower than the GTX 1650, but also a lot slower than the competitor AMD’s entry-level graphics card, the RX 6400:
Under the 2560×1440 resolution setting, the average FPS dropped to 16, and the game “Polar War Cry 6” dropped to less than 5FPS:
However, this resolution setting narrows the gap between the RX 6400 and the GTX 1650:
Finally, the 4K image quality of 3840×2160 resolution, the average FPS is only 9:
It also closes the gap between GTX 1650 and RX 6400 again:
As for power consumption, the GTX 1630 is similar to the RX 6400, about 49W, while the GTX 1650 has a higher power consumption, reaching 74W.
Since the GTX 1630 does not have an official suggested selling price, TechPowerUP converts it with performance at five market prices: $175, $150, $125, $100, and $75. It seems that it is worth starting this piece below $100:
Even so, if you want to use this card to play AAA titles, you have to accept that even at Full HD settings, the FPS is not high (not even 30 FPS). I would recommend buying the RTX 30 series. After all, it has fallen a lot now, and maybe it will be cheaper in a few weeks.