GeForce GTX 1630 vs Radeon VII

Intro

Compare all that to the Radeon VII, which uses a 7 nm design. AMD has clocked the core frequency at 1400 MHz. The HBM2 RAM works at a frequency of 1000 MHz on this card. It features 3840 SPUs along with 240 TAUs and 64 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 1630		75 Watts
Radeon VII		295 Watts
	Difference: 220 Watts (293%)

Memory Bandwidth

In theory, the Radeon VII is 967% quicker than the GeForce GTX 1630 in general, because of its greater bandwidth. (explain)

Radeon VII		1048576 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 1630		98304 MB/sec
	Difference: 950272 (967%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon VII will be a lot (about 503%) more effective at texture filtering than the GeForce GTX 1630. (explain)

Radeon VII		336000 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 1630		55680 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 280320 (503%)

Pixel Rate

If using lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the Radeon VII is a better choice, by far. (explain)

Radeon VII		89600 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 1630		27840 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 61760 (222%)

Please note that the above 'benchmarks' are all just theoretical - the results were calculated based on the card's specifications, and real-world performance may (and probably will) vary at least a bit.

Price Comparison

Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the max amount of information (counted in megabytes per second) that can be transported past the external memory interface within a second. The number is worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory clock speed. If it uses DDR RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that can be processed per second. This is worked out by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels applied per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics chip could possibly write to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel fill rate also depends on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.