NVIDIA Launches GeForce GTX 1630 Graphics Card

[btarunr]

NVIDIA today launched the GeForce GTX 1630 entry-level graphics card. A successor to the GT 1030, the new GTX 1630 is an entry-level product, despite its roughly $150 MSRP. It is based on the older "Turing" 16-series graphics architecture, which lacks hardware-accelerated ray tracing or even support for DLSS. It is carved out from the same 12 nm "TU117" silicon as the GTX 1650 from 2019.

The GTX 1630 features exactly half of the 16 streaming multiprocessors present on the TU117. The 8 available SM work out to 512 CUDA cores, 32 TMUs, and 32 ROPs. The card comes with 4 GB as the standard memory size, and this is GDDR6 type, across a 64-bit wide memory bus. The card typically features just two 12 Gbps-rated 16 Gbit GDDR6 chips. The GPU operates at a boost frequency of 1785 MHz. The card lacks hardware-accelerated AV1 decode, and has media features consistent with the rest of the "Turing" family. At $150, it competes with the Radeon RX 6400 (which can be had for as low as $160), and the Arc A380.



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[john_]

At $60 it is a great replacement for the GT 1030.


...what? $160? Really?......

 

[TheoneandonlyMrK]

So it's 2022 and this tat is news, sad day.

 

[ThrashZone]

Hi,
Yep can't pick and choose news stories I guess but sure wish they would because this 1630 nonsense is better suited for a comedy or general nonsense section posts

 

[john_]

I believe this GTX 1630 thing should be on every tech site's first page. With the appropriate article about it's price and performance compared to what is selling today and more importantly, what someone could buy 3 years ago at under $200.
Unfortunately, this is Nvidia, so many sites will probably downplay this release and not even post reviews or anything. Sites that where happy to come out with negative (and totally justified) titles about RX 6500 XT, will probably forget to do a review.

 

[Mussels]

"The card lacks hardware-accelerated AV1 decode"

That's uhh, kinda shit.

Ruins it for HTPC use.

 

[W1zzard]

"The card lacks hardware-accelerated AV1 decode"

That's uhh, kinda shit.

Ruins it for HTPC use.

Which card are you currently using for AV1?

 

[Berfs1]

Apparently it's so much to ask for a GPU with no power connectors and the latest NVENC encoder, let alone have tensor cores for RTX Noise...

 

[Mussels]

Which card are you currently using for AV1?

Well a 3090, because my HTPC is disassembled

At the moment it's admittedly not super useful for streaming content since everyones gone and capped PC's to 720p or 1080p for god knows what reason, so it's only helpful for local video playback

Do i need it? no.
Do i want it for low power HTPC's now and in the future? yes.


Edit: Ugh i'd forgotten about the stupid $0.99 HEVC codec required on windows and the free alternative you gotta manually install
HEVC should be part of the OS
At least netflix works in 4K for me now, but nothing else does. Codecs and DRM are a PITA.