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GeForce GTX 1630 vs GeForce GTX 970M

Intro

The GeForce GTX 1630 uses a 12 nm design. nVidia has set the core speed at 1740 MHz. The GDDR6 memory runs at a speed of 1500 MHz on this specific model. It features 512 SPUs along with 32 TAUs and 16 Rasterization Operator Units.

Compare all that to the GeForce GTX 970M, which uses a 28 nm design. nVidia has set the core frequency at 924 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM is set to run at a frequency of 1000 MHz on this particular card. It features 1280 SPUs along with 80 Texture Address Units and 48 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 be a small bit faster than the GeForce GTX 970M in general. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1630 98304 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 970M 96000 MB/sec
Difference: 2304 (2%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 970M should be much (more or less 33%) better at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 1630. (explain)

GeForce GTX 970M 73920 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 1630 55680 Mtexels/sec
Difference: 18240 (33%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 970M is a lot (about 59%) faster with regards to full screen anti-aliasing than the GeForce GTX 1630, and will be capable of handling higher screen resolutions while still performing well. (explain)

GeForce GTX 970M 44352 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 1630 27840 Mpixels/sec
Difference: 16512 (59%)

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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Specifications

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Model GeForce GTX 1630 GeForce GTX 970M
Manufacturer nVidia nVidia
Year June 2022 October 7 2014
Code Name TU117 GM204
Memory 4096 MB 3072 MB
Core Speed 1740 MHz 924 MHz
Memory Speed 1500 GB/s 4000 MHz
Power (Max TDP) 75 watts 75 watts
Bandwidth 98304 MB/sec 96000 MB/sec
Texel Rate 55680 Mtexels/sec 73920 Mtexels/sec
Pixel Rate 27840 Mpixels/sec 44352 Mpixels/sec
Unified Shaders 512 1280
Texture Mapping Units 32 80
Render Output Units 16 48
Bus Type GDDR6 GDDR5
Bus Width 64-bit 192-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 12
OpenGL Version OpenGL 4.6 OpenGL 4.5

Memory Bandwidth: Memory bandwidth is the largest amount of information (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transferred across the external memory interface within a second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's bus width by its memory clock speed. If the card has DDR RAM, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The higher the bandwidth is, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range and high resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the graphics card can possibly write to its local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The figure is worked out by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines 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 also depends on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the max fill rate.

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GeForce GTX 1630

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