The official GTX 1630 costs $ 150 and is slower than the RX 6400

NVIDIA has officially launched the new entry level GeForce GTX 1630, a product designed for the lower end of the market and for those who mainly need a video card for multi-monitor setups and acceleration of multimedia streams. From the point of view of specifications, the GTX 1630 is based on the TU117 GPU (Turing architecture) with 512 CUDA cores and a maximum frequency of 1.8GHz, combined with 4GB of GDDR6 memory at 12Gbps; as well as other similar solutions, the TDP should reach the 75 Watts offered by the PCIe slot, so as not to have the need for auxiliary power supply through the classic 8-pin connector.

TechPowerUP colleagues have managed to get into possession of a Gainward GeForce GTX 1630 specimen, testing it against other entry level cards. The results, of course, were not very encouraging when it comes to gaming, as they fell short of AMD's Radeon RX 6400 and the Radeon RX 6500 XT is even twice as fast at 1080p and 1440p resolutions. From the point of view of consumption, the GTX 1630 is positioned on the same level as the RX 6400, with around 49W, while the GTX 1650, for comparison, reaches around 74W.



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Yesterday we brought you the words of David Wang from AMD, which stated that the upcoming Radeon RX 7000 cards, based on the RDNA 3 architecture, will focus more on Ray Tracing, an aspect where the current RX 6000 are still quite behind the solutions of the rival NVIDIA. Find more details in our previous dedicated news.