GeForce GTX 1630 vs GeForce GTX 295

Intro

Compare all that to the GeForce GTX 295, which has core speeds of 576 MHz on the GPU, and 999 MHz on the 896 MB of GDDR3 RAM. It features 240 SPUs along with 80 Texture Address Units and 28 Rasterization Operator Units.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 1630		75 Watts
GeForce GTX 295		289 Watts
	Difference: 214 Watts (285%)

Memory Bandwidth

Performance-wise, the GeForce GTX 295 should in theory be quite a bit superior to the GeForce GTX 1630 in general. (explain)

GeForce GTX 295		223776 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 1630		98304 MB/sec
	Difference: 125472 (128%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 295 will be a lot (more or less 66%) faster with regards to texture filtering than the GeForce GTX 1630. (explain)

GeForce GTX 295		92160 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 1630		55680 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 36480 (66%)

Pixel Rate

The GeForce GTX 295 should be a little bit (about 16%) better at AA than the GeForce GTX 1630, and also capable of handling higher screen resolutions better. (explain)

GeForce GTX 295		32256 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 1630		27840 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 4416 (16%)

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.

One or more cards in this comparison are multi-core. This means that their bandwidth, texel and pixel rates are theoretically doubled - this does not mean the card will actually perform twice as fast, but only that it should in theory be able to. Actual game benchmarks will give a more accurate idea of what it's capable of.

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Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the max amount of data (counted in megabytes per second) that can be transferred over the external memory interface in one second. It is calculated by multiplying the card's interface width by the speed of its memory. If it uses DDR type memory, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If it uses DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The better the bandwidth is, the better the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and higher screen resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum texture map elements (texels) that are processed per second. This is worked out by multiplying the total texture units by the core speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the video 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 most pixels the graphics card could possibly record to the local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is calculated by multiplying the number of Render Output Units by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - aka Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel rate also depends on lots of other factors, most notably the memory bandwidth - the lower the memory bandwidth is, the lower the potential to reach the max fill rate.