GeForce GTX 1630 vs GeForce GTX 960M

Intro

Compare that to the GeForce GTX 960M, which has GPU clock speed of 1096 MHz, and 2048 MB of GDDR5 RAM set to run at 1000 MHz through a 128-bit bus. It also features 640 Stream Processors, 40 Texture Address Units, and 16 Raster Operation Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 960M		65 Watts
GeForce GTX 1630		75 Watts
	Difference: 10 Watts (15%)

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce GTX 1630 should in theory be quite a bit faster than the GeForce GTX 960M in general. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1630		98304 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 960M		64000 MB/sec
	Difference: 34304 (54%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1630 is a lot (more or less 27%) more effective at AF than the GeForce GTX 960M. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1630		55680 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 960M		43840 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 11840 (27%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1630 should be quite a bit (more or less 59%) more effective at AA than the GeForce GTX 960M, and will be able to handle higher screen resolutions while still performing well. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1630		27840 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 960M		17536 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 10304 (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

Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the largest amount of information (in units of megabytes per second) that can be transported over the external memory interface in a second. It is calculated by multiplying the bus width by its memory clock speed. In the case of DDR RAM, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, High Dynamic Range 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 number of texture units of the card by the core 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 per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum number of pixels the graphics card could possibly write to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the amount 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 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 get to the max fill rate.