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GeForce GTX 1630 vs Radeon R9 M290X

Intro

The GeForce GTX 1630 has a GPU clock speed of 1740 MHz, and the 4096 MB of GDDR6 memory is set to run at 1500 MHz through a 64-bit bus. It also features 512 SPUs, 32 TAUs, and 16 ROPs.

Compare that to the Radeon R9 M290X, which has core clock speeds of 850 MHz on the GPU, and 1200 MHz on the 4096 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 1280 SPUs as well as 80 TAUs and 32 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 1630 75 Watts
Radeon R9 M290X 100 Watts
Difference: 25 Watts (33%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon R9 M290X should in theory perform quite a bit faster than the GeForce GTX 1630 overall. (explain)

Radeon R9 M290X 153600 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 1630 98304 MB/sec
Difference: 55296 (56%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R9 M290X will be a lot (approximately 22%) faster with regards to AF than the GeForce GTX 1630. (explain)

Radeon R9 M290X 68000 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 1630 55680 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 12320 (22%)

Pixel Rate

If running with high levels of AA is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 1630 is the winner, but only just. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1630 27840 Mpixels/sec
Radeon R9 M290X 27200 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 640 (2%)

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

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GeForce GTX 1630

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Specifications

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Model GeForce GTX 1630 Radeon R9 M290X
Manufacturer nVidia AMD
Year June 2022 May 1 2014
Code Name TU117 Neptune XT
Memory 4096 MB 4096 MB
Core Speed 1740 MHz 850 MHz
Memory Speed 1500 GB/s 4800 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 75 watts 100 watts
Bandwidth 98304 MB/sec 153600 MB/sec
Texel Rate 55680 Mtexels/sec 68000 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 27840 Mpixels/sec 27200 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 512 1280
Texture Mapping Units 32 80
Render Output Units 16 32
Bus Type GDDR6 GDDR5
Bus Width 64-bit 256-bit
Fab Process 12 nm 28 nm
Transistors 4700 million (Unknown) million
Bus PCIe 4.0 x16 PCIe 3.0 x16
DirectX Version DirectX 12 DirectX 11.2
OpenGL Version OpenGL 4.6 OpenGL 4.3

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the maximum amount of data (in units of MB per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface in a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by the speed of its memory. In the case of DDR RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, HDR and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels that the graphics card could possibly record to its local memory in one second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the clock 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 many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the maximum fill rate.

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GeForce GTX 1630

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Radeon R9 M290X

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Please note that the price comparisons are based on search keywords - sometimes it might show cards with very similar names that are not exactly the same as the one chosen in the comparison. We do try to filter out the wrong results as best we can, though.

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