GeForce GTX 1050 vs GeForce GTX 1630

Intro

Compare all that to the GeForce GTX 1630, which uses a 12 nm design. nVidia has set the core frequency at 1740 MHz. The GDDR6 RAM works at a speed of 1500 MHz on this specific model. It features 512 SPUs along with 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, the GeForce GTX 1050 should be a bit faster than the GeForce GTX 1630 in general. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1050		114688 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 1630		98304 MB/sec
	Difference: 16384 (17%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1630 will be a bit (approximately 3%) faster with regards to anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 1050. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1630		55680 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 1050		54160 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 1520 (3%)

Pixel Rate

If running with high levels of AA is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 1050 is a better choice, and very much so. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1050		43328 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 1630		27840 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 15488 (56%)

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 information (in units of megabytes per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface in one second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR type RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed per second. This number is calculated by multiplying the total texture units of the card 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 applied in one second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics card could possibly record to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is calculated by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - sometimes also referred to as Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel fill rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the max fill rate.