GeForce GT 1030 vs GeForce GTX 1630

Intro

Compare that to the GeForce GTX 1630, which uses a 12 nm design. nVidia has clocked the core frequency at 1740 MHz. The GDDR6 memory works at a speed of 1500 MHz on this card. It features 512 SPUs as well as 32 Texture Address Units and 16 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GT 1030		30 Watts
GeForce GTX 1630		75 Watts
	Difference: 45 Watts (150%)

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the GeForce GTX 1630 should theoretically be much superior to the GeForce GT 1030 in general. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1630		98304 MB/sec
GeForce GT 1030		49152 MB/sec
	Difference: 49152 (100%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1630 should be much (about 38%) better at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GT 1030. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1630		55680 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GT 1030		40480 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 15200 (38%)

Pixel Rate

If using lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 1630 is superior to the GeForce GT 1030, by a large margin. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1630		27840 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GT 1030		20240 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 7600 (38%)

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: Memory bandwidth is the maximum amount of information (counted in megabytes per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface in one second. The number is worked out by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory speed. If it uses DDR type RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

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

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