GeForce GTX 1630 officially as fast as GTX 1050 Ti
Inno3D confirms GTX 1630 performance.
GeForce GTX 1630 officially introduced yesterday has already been tested by tech outlets like TechPowerUp or Guru3D . It is not a fast gaming card though, in fact it is slower than Radeon RX 6400 from AMD RDNA2 lineup.
GeForce GTX 1630 performance, Source: Inno3D
NVIDIA has been somewhat quiet about this launch, while board partners boasted about their new designs, often copying cooling and PCBs from GTX 1650 models released a few years go. One such partners was Inno3D, who are actually the only company that revealed official performance figures for this GPU.
As it turns out, we were right. This card is officially replacing GTX 1050 Ti model based on Pascal architecture. Here’s a reminder that GTX 1050 Ti is a card from 2016 which launched at 139 USD MSRP. According to Inno3D figures, GTX 1630 should provide comparable performance in gaming to GTX 1050 Ti while being 17% faster than GTX 1050 non-Ti. The gap widens in more demanding titles such as Control, Cyberpunk 2077 or Assassin’s Creed Valhalla.
GeForce GTX 1630 performance, Source: Inno3D
Inno3D is also pointing out that GTX 1630 has a more capable media decoder, with support for VP8 or H.265 (HEVC) codecs. That is not the case with Pascal architecture. The GTX 1630 features a TU117-150 GPU based on Turing architecture with 512 CUDA Cores.
GeForce GTX 1630 decoding capability, Source: Inno3D
NVIDIA did not announce the official MSRP for this card, however some board partners did. According to EVGA, their GTX 1630 SC is worth 199 USD, while Colorful officially declared their model will retail at 169 USD/1199 RMB. As mentioned above, the GTX 1050 Ti launched at 139 USD in 2016. Therefore, one should expect GTX 1630 to cost a lot less.
| NVIDIA GeForce GTX 16 Series | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| VideoCardz.com | GeForce GTX 1630 | GeForce GTX 1650 (G6) | GeForce GTX 1050 Ti |
| Picture |  |  |  |
| Launch Date | June 28, 2022 | April 3, 2020 | October 25, 2016 |
| GPU | 12nm Turing TU117-150 | 12nm Turing TU117-300 | 14nm Pascal GP107-400 |
| CUDA Cores | 512 | 896 | 768 |
| Boost Clock | 1785 MHz | 1590 MHz | 1392 MHz |
| Memory Clock | 12 Gbps | 12 Gbps | 7 Gbps |
| Memory | 4GB GDDR6 | 4GB GDDR6 | 4GB GDDR5 |
| Memory Bus | 64-bit | 128-bit | 128-bit |
| Bandwidth | 96 GB/s | 192 GB/s | 112 GB/s |
| TDP | 75W | 75W | 75W |
| Launch Price | ~169 USD | 149 USD | 139 USD |