T500 Max-Q vs GeForce GTX 1630

Primary details

GPU architecture, market segment, value for money and other general parameters compared.

Place in the ranking388not rated
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiency12.01no data
ArchitectureTuring (2018−2022)Turing (2018−2022)
GPU code nameTU117TU117
Market segmentDesktopMobile workstation
Release date28 June 2022 (2 years ago)2 December 2020 (3 years ago)

Detailed specifications

General parameters such as number of shaders, GPU core base clock and boost clock speeds, manufacturing process, texturing and calculation speed. Note that power consumption of some graphics cards can well exceed their nominal TDP, especially when overclocked.

Pipelines / CUDA cores512896
Core clock speed1740 MHz795 MHz
Boost clock speed1785 MHz1425 MHz
Number of transistors4,700 million4,700 million
Manufacturing process technology12 nm12 nm
Power consumption (TDP)75 Watt18 Watt
Texture fill rate57.1279.80
Floating-point processing power1.828 TFLOPS2.554 TFLOPS
ROPs1632
TMUs3256

Form factor & compatibility

Information on compatibility with other computer components. Useful when choosing a future computer configuration or upgrading an existing one. For desktop graphics cards it's interface and bus (motherboard compatibility), additional power connectors (power supply compatibility).

InterfacePCIe 3.0 x8PCIe 3.0 x16
Length145 mmno data
Width1-slotno data
Supplementary power connectorsNoneNone

VRAM capacity and type

Parameters of VRAM installed: its type, size, bus, clock and resulting bandwidth. Integrated GPUs have no dedicated video RAM and use a shared part of system RAM.

Memory typeGDDR6GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount4 GB4 GB
Memory bus width64 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed1500 MHz1250 MHz
Memory bandwidth96 GB/s80 GB/s

Connectivity and outputs

Types and number of video connectors present on the reviewed GPUs. As a rule, data in this section is precise only for desktop reference ones (so-called Founders Edition for NVIDIA chips). OEM manufacturers may change the number and type of output ports, while for notebook cards availability of certain video outputs ports depends on the laptop model rather than on the card itself.

Display Connectors1x DVI, 1x HDMI 2.0, 1x DisplayPort 1.4aPortable Device Dependent
HDMI+-

API compatibility

List of supported 3D and general-purpose computing APIs, including their specific versions.

DirectX12 (12_1)12 (12_1)
Shader Model6.66.7 (6.4)
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL3.03.0
Vulkan1.31.3
CUDA7.57.5

Pros & cons summary


Recency 28 June 2022 2 December 2020
Power consumption (TDP) 75 Watt 18 Watt

GTX 1630 has an age advantage of 1 year.

T500 Max-Q, on the other hand, has 316.7% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between GeForce GTX 1630 and T500 Max-Q. We've got no test results to judge.

Be aware that GeForce GTX 1630 is a desktop card while T500 Max-Q is a mobile workstation one.


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