NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1630

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1630

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 970 and 4GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1630 to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 's Advantages

Larger VRAM bandwidth (224.4GB/s vs 96.00GB/s)

1152 additional rendering cores

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1630 's Advantages

Released 7 years and 9 months late

Boost Clock has increased by 52% (1785MHz vs 1178MHz)

Lower TDP (75W vs 148W)

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 970 +114%

3.92 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1630

1.828 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce GTX 970 +72%

3625

GeForce GTX 1630

2102

Blender

GeForce GTX 970 +7%

305

GeForce GTX 1630

283

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce GTX 970 +150%

15

GeForce GTX 1630

6

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce GTX 970 +66%

30

GeForce GTX 1630

18

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce GTX 970 +33%

40

GeForce GTX 1630

30

GeForce GTX 970

VS

GeForce GTX 1630

Graphics Card

Sep 2014

Release Date

Jun 2022

GeForce 900

Generation

GeForce 16

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x8

Clock Speeds

1050 MHz

Base Clock

1740 MHz

1178 MHz

Boost Clock

1785 MHz

1753 MHz

Memory Clock

1500 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

256bit

Memory Bus

64bit

224.4GB/s

Bandwidth

96.00GB/s

Render Config

-

SM Count

8

1664

Shading Units

512

104

TMUs

32

56

ROPs

16

-

48 KB (per SMM)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

2 MB

L2 Cache

1024 KB

-

Theoretical Performance

65.97 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

28.56 GPixel/s

122.5 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

57.12 GTexel/s

-

FP16 (half)

3.656 TFLOPS

3.920 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

1.828 TFLOPS

122.5 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

57.12 GFLOPS

Board Design

148W

TDP

75W

300 W

Suggested PSU

250 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 1x DisplayPort 1.4a

2x 6-pin

Power Connectors

None

Graphics Processor

GM204

GPU Name

TU117

GM204-200-A1

GPU Variant

TU117-150-KA-A1

Maxwell 2.0

Architecture

Turing

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

28 nm

Process Size

12 nm

5.2 billion

Transistors

4.7 billion

398 mm²

Die Size

200 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

5.2

CUDA

7.5

6.4

Shader Model

6.7

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