NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1630 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1630 NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970

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

Main Differences

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)

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 's Advantages

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

1152 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1630

1.828 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 970 +114%

3.92 TFLOPS

3DMark Time Spy

GeForce GTX 1630

2102

GeForce GTX 970 +72%

3622

Blender

GeForce GTX 1630

283

GeForce GTX 970 +6%

302

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 2160p

GeForce GTX 1630

6

GeForce GTX 970 +150%

15

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1440p

GeForce GTX 1630

18

GeForce GTX 970 +66%

30

Shadow of the Tomb Raider 1080p

GeForce GTX 1630

30

GeForce GTX 970 +33%

40

GeForce GTX 1630

VS

GeForce GTX 970

Graphics Card

Jun 2022

Release Date

Sep 2014

GeForce 16

Generation

GeForce 900

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x8

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1740 MHz

Base Clock

1050 MHz

1785 MHz

Boost Clock

1178 MHz

1500 MHz

Memory Clock

1753 MHz

Memory

4GB

Memory Size

4GB

GDDR6

Memory Type

GDDR5

64bit

Memory Bus

256bit

96.00GB/s

Bandwidth

224.4GB/s

Render Config

8

SM Count

-

Compute Units

-

512

Shading Units

1664

32

TMUs

104

16

ROPs

56

-

Tensor Cores

-

RT Cores

-

64 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

48 KB (per SMM)

1024 KB

L2 Cache

2 MB

Theoretical Performance

28.56 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

65.97 GPixel/s

57.12 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

122.5 GTexel/s

3.656 TFLOPS

FP16 (half)

-

1.828 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

3.920 TFLOPS

57.12 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

122.5 GFLOPS

Graphics Processor

TU117

GPU Name

GM204

TU117-150-KA-A1

GPU Variant

GM204-200-A1

Turing

Architecture

Maxwell 2.0

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

12 nm

Process Size

28 nm

4.7 billion

Transistors

5.2 billion

200 mm²

Die Size

398 mm²

Board Design

75W

TDP

148W

250 W

Suggested PSU

300 W

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

Outputs

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

None

Power Connectors

2x 6-pin

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 (12_1)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

7.5

CUDA

5.2

6.7

Shader Model

6.4

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