NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1630 Set To Launch Tomorrow

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The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1630 is set to be officially unveiled tomorrow as a successor to the GTX 1050 Ti with Colorful already listing one such model on their website. The GTX 1630 will be an entry-level card featuring a TU117-150 GPU with 512 CUDA cores running at 1785 MHz paired with 4 GB of GDDR6 memory on a 64-bit memory bus for a total bandwidth of 96 GB/s. The leaked Colorful GTX 1630 BattleAx features a dual-fan cooling solution, triple display connectors, and an additional 6-pin power input essentially copying the company's GTX 1650 model. The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1630 will be available from multiple board partners when it launches tomorrow and could reportedly retail for ~150 USD according to some Chinese retailers.



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[P4-630]

Finally!! I was waiting for this for years!!!

 

[natr0n]

I dont think i have seen a pure alu cooler in forever. Kinda cool/neat

 

[Daven]

Too little too late as the Nvidia fans would say. Or at least the ones who commented on the launch of the RX 6700.

FYI, Companies can launch any products at any time regardless of those sitting at home reading tech sites. You can call it Daven’s law.

 

[FreedomEclipse]

that shroud design reminds me of MSi gaming line of graphics cards

 

[bonehead123]

.....w.T.f....

Maybe I'm just missing something here, but why on earth would such a low-end card need a FULL aluminum heatsink PLUS 2 big fans to cool it... ????

Is there something inherently different about this card that makes it run extra hot, or were the designers were just extra lazy and didn't give a sh*t about the thermals when they laid out all of the parts, or are the parts of such low quality that they create runaway temps ???

 

[PLAfiller]

I wonder if we will get an LP version of this, due to the fact there is one for GTX1650 already.

 

[agatong55]

.....w.T.f....

Maybe I'm just missing something here, but why on earth would such a low-end card need a FULL aluminum heatsink PLUS 2 big fans to cool it... ????

Is there something inherently different about this card that makes it run extra hot, or were the designers were just extra lazy and didn't give a sh*t about the thermals when they laid out all of the parts, or are the parts of such low quality that they create runaway temps ???

Use what you already have, why make a new heatsink or fan design when its cheaper to use what you already have in stock.

 

[DeathtoGnomes]

.....w.T.f....

Maybe I'm just missing something here, but why on earth would such a low-end card need a FULL aluminum heatsink PLUS 2 big fans to cool it... ????

Is there something inherently different about this card that makes it run extra hot, or were the designers were just extra lazy and didn't give a sh*t about the thermals when they laid out all of the parts, or are the parts of such low quality that they create runaway temps ???

Yes this card should have been the size of a Nano.

Use what you already have, why make a new heatsink or fan design when its cheaper to use what you already have in stock.

Thats a thought, over stocked of cooler and fans.

 

[80-watt Hamster]

There's going to be slot-powered models of the 1630, right?

 

[TheoneandonlyMrK]

Yaaaaaaaawwwn.

No thank you NVIDIA.

 

[JoniISkandar]

150$ for real

 

[defaultluser]

Well, at lest they stepped-up to the gold with GDDR6 memory. I was concerned that they would continue the castrated 64-bit card for one more generation!!

now, we only need to see how many devices sporting ddr4 show up?

 

[Chaitanya]

So a 6 pin connector necessary for "entry level" GPU, what a great time to be alive.

 

[catulitechup]

150us for this outdated turing gpu, capped, dont know if nvidia cut encode capabilities like gt 1030, 64bit memory, less shaders compared gtx 1050ti...................................only can respond this

 

[ModEl4]

It doesn't make sense to impose a 6pin requirement based on market positioning/specs, it is like they doing it on purpose just to make the public get used to the high TBP era having no alternative solution in any price level except unnecessary overpowered versions, there is no logic (no logic, just like what US Open committee is doing to Djokovic's case making unreasonable impositions / requirements without any relevant scientific basis, but that is another subject, sorry)

 

[Vayra86]

A dual slot and you still need power from pcie for this utter piece of junk?!

What the hell is the market for this? Russia? There's even a reintroduction of DVI on this baby, man I had half expected a VGA next to it. What's next, GDDR5 makes a return in the midrange?

It truly is one step forward and two steps back with Nvidia ever since they adopted RTX. Holy shit, what a cesspool. Luckily 450W ADA is around the corner boys!

 

[ARF]

What does it target?

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1630 Specs | TechPowerUp GPU Database

 

[ThrashZone]

Hi,
3050 nv is 250.us if they really wanted to do some good drop it's price to 150.us which sounds about right.
Maybe they just wanted to feed the memes some more after the pitful 1650 drop

 

[ARF]

I know what they want

 

[Chrispy_]

WHOA HOLD UP A MINUTE

512 CUDA cores? I was expecting 1280 CUDA cores or something. I know the way a Turing "core" is classed compared to Ampere makes this better than it sounds compared to the 3050's 2560 CUDA cores, but this thing is going to be slower than the vanilla 1650 which you sometimes find on clearance for $125 or so, and is flooding the used market for ~$100 (converting to USD but I'm looking in EUR and GBP markets).

If it's 512 Turing CUDA cores and boosts to the moon (like, >2.6GHz), it's still going to only just match the woeful laptop 1650 max-Q (1024 cores at 1290MHz) and that was slated for being too slow compared to the variant without max-Q to be worthy of the name. So if the desktop 1650 was disappointing performance for its price and power draw, the laptop variant was even more disappointing and the max-Q variant was bad even by those doubly-disappointing standards. Oh, and we're talking about disappointing in the market three years ago, not tomorrow.

I'm guessing that this is still TSMC 12nm, not Samsung 8nm - and therefore boosting to the moon isn't a reality. At a more realistic 1700MHz, this thing isn't going to distinguish itself much from a GTX960, something you can pick up on ebay for $50.

What does it target?

"Intel HD graphics" in a 3-year-old Dell/HP office PC

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1630 Specs | TechPowerUp GPU Database

OH SHIT
Has @W1zzard broken the review embargo and spoiled "the surprise" by uploading his review data to the database too early, or is this just estimated data based on (core count*clocks) until otherwise tested?

 

[ModEl4]

What does it target?

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1630 Specs | TechPowerUp GPU Database

Probably we will have versions like 75W TBP 1650 that don't need 6pin.
If Nvidia is greedy maybe they will go for a similar to RX6400 performance/$ for those that want to upgrade (an old Skylake system for example) pricing it at $119, who knows? (It won't be slower than -38% vs GTX 1650 irrespective from what TPU database says, i hope @W1zzard to test it soon)

at $149 tune probably the below ( due to currency lol):

 

[Chrispy_]

I found this - the T400, which is 384 CUDA cores on the same silicon as the GTX 1630 but 80GB/s of memory bandwidth instead of 96GB/s

So, it's probably very slightly nicer to game on that this dumpster fire which basically can't handle any games made in the last four years.

 

[AusWolf]

First thoughts: Dual fan design and 6-pin power? Isn't that excessive for a card like this?

Second thoughts after looking at the heatsink: Oh... It'll probably be noisy as hell anyway.

 

[Alan Smithee]

The big question is the NVENC/NVDEC feature set. We sorely need a low-end card with decent memory bandwidth for non-gaming (business & entry level content creation, e.g. training session re-edits and basic YouTube). The 1050 had a full encode/decode feature set for its time, but the 1030 did not. The "1630" name thus worries me. Is this really a replacement for the 1050 or the 1030?