GeForce GTX 1630 vs Radeon R7 370 4G

Intro

Compare those specs to the Radeon R7 370 4G, which uses a 28 nm design. AMD has clocked the core frequency at 975 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM is set to run at a speed of 1400 MHz on this card. It features 1024 SPUs as well as 64 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 R7 370 4G		110 Watts
	Difference: 35 Watts (47%)

Memory Bandwidth

The Radeon R7 370 4G should theoretically be quite a bit faster than the GeForce GTX 1630 overall. (explain)

Radeon R7 370 4G		179200 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 1630		98304 MB/sec
	Difference: 80896 (82%)

Texel Rate

The Radeon R7 370 4G will be a little bit (about 12%) more effective at AF than the GeForce GTX 1630. (explain)

Radeon R7 370 4G		62400 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 1630		55680 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 6720 (12%)

Pixel Rate

If running with a high resolution is important to you, then the Radeon R7 370 4G is the winner, but not by far. (explain)

Radeon R7 370 4G		31200 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 1630		27840 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 3360 (12%)

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 max amount of data (measured in megabytes per second) that can be moved past the external memory interface in a second. The number is calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by its memory speed. In the case of DDR type memory, it should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by 4 instead. The better the memory bandwidth, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with anti-aliasing, High Dynamic Range and higher screen resolutions.

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

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the video card could possibly write to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the number of colour ROPs by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel rate also depends on many other factors, especially the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the ability to reach the maximum fill rate.