GeForce GTX 1050 3GB vs GeForce GTX 1630

Intro

Compare all that to the GeForce GTX 1630, which has GPU clock speed of 1740 MHz, and 4096 MB of GDDR6 RAM running at 1500 MHz through a 64-bit bus. It also is made up of 512 Stream Processors, 32 Texture Address Units, and 16 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Both cards have the same power consumption.

Memory Bandwidth

Theoretically speaking, the GeForce GTX 1630 should perform a small bit faster than the GeForce GTX 1050 3GB in general. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1630		98304 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 1050 3GB		86016 MB/sec
	Difference: 12288 (14%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1050 3GB is just a bit (more or less 20%) better at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 1630. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1050 3GB		66816 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 1630		55680 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 11136 (20%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1050 3GB will be a bit (more or less 20%) more effective at AA than the GeForce GTX 1630, and capable of handling higher screen resolutions while still performing well. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1050 3GB		33408 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 1630		27840 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 5568 (20%)

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 largest amount of data (in units of MB per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface in one second. It is worked out by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR memory, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the bandwidth is, 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 number is calculated by multiplying the total texture units by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher this number, the better the video card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels in a second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the graphics card could possibly record to its local memory per 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 outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the max fill rate.