GeForce GTX 1630 vs GeForce GTX 460 SE

Intro

Compare all of that to the GeForce GTX 460 SE, which uses a 40 nm design. nVidia has clocked the core speed at 650 MHz. The GDDR5 RAM runs at a frequency of 850 MHz on this specific card. It features 288 SPUs along with 48 Texture Address Units and 32 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 1630		75 Watts
GeForce GTX 460 SE		150 Watts
	Difference: 75 Watts (100%)

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the GeForce GTX 460 SE should in theory be a bit superior to the GeForce GTX 1630 overall. (explain)

GeForce GTX 460 SE		108800 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 1630		98304 MB/sec
	Difference: 10496 (11%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1630 should be quite a bit (more or less 78%) more effective at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 460 SE. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1630		55680 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 460 SE		31200 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 24480 (78%)

Pixel Rate

If using lots of anti-aliasing is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 1630 is superior to the GeForce GTX 460 SE, by far. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1630		27840 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 460 SE		20800 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 7040 (34%)

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 maximum amount of information (measured in MB per second) that can be transferred past the external memory interface in a second. It's calculated by multiplying the interface width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR type memory, the result should be multiplied by 2 again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the card's memory bandwidth, 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 amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed per second. This figure is worked out by multiplying the total texture units of the card by the core speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the graphics card will be at texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels processed per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the most pixels the graphics card can possibly record to the local memory per second - measured in millions of pixels per second. The number is calculated by multiplying the number of ROPs by the the card's clock speed. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for drawing the pixels (image) on the screen. The actual pixel fill rate also depends on many other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth of the card - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the ability to get to the maximum fill rate.