SeekerNvidia GeForce GTX 1630
The GeForce GTX 1630 has arrived woefully late to the party, at a price that's double what it should be. With half the shader cores and memory channels disabled, it turns a budget GPU into a halfwit, with the lowest performance of any relatively current graphics card.
-- As reviewed by Tom's Hardware
Product details
- The ASUS Phoenix GeForce GTX 1630 is built with the powerful graphics performance of the award-winning NVIDIA Turing architecture. Step up to better gaming with GeForce GTX.
- 2nd Generation RT Cores: Experience 2X the throughput of 1st gen RT Cores, plus concurrent RT and shading for a whole new level of ray-tracing performance.
- 3rd Generation Tensor Cores: Get up to 2X the throughput with structural sparsity and advanced AI algorithms such as DLSS. These cores deliver a massive boost in game performance and all-new AI capabilities.
- Axial-tech fan design features a smaller fan hub that facilitates longer blades and a barrier ring that increases downward air pressure.
- Dual ball fan bearings can last up to twice as long as sleeve bearing designs.
- Auto-Extreme Technology uses automation to enhance reliability.
- GPU Tweak III provides intuitive performance tweaking, thermal controls, and system monitoring.
PROS
+ Faster than GTX 1050
+ Hardware video encoding
+ Manages 1080p medium at 30 fps
+ 4GB VRAM (not that it matters much)
CONS
- Costs more than GTX 1650
- Slower than every other modern GPU
- Still needs a 6-pin PCIe power connector
- About three years late to the GTX 16-series party
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By Tom's Hardware on August 04, 2022
The GeForce GTX 1630 has arrived woefully late to the party, at a price that's double what it should be. With half the shader cores and memory channels disabled, it turns a budget GPU into a halfwit, with the lowest performance of any relatively current graphics card.
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