GeForce GTX 1630 vs ATI Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6

Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated388
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data12.01
ArchitectureTeraScale 2 (2009−2015)Turing (2018−2022)
GPU code nameCypressTU117
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release date11 March 2010 (14 years ago)28 June 2022 (2 years ago)
Launch price (MSRP)$479 no data

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 cores1600512
Core clock speed850 MHz1740 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1785 MHz
Number of transistors2,154 million4,700 million
Manufacturing process technology40 nm12 nm
Power consumption (TDP)228 Watt75 Watt
Texture fill rate68.0057.12
Floating-point processing power2.72 TFLOPS1.828 TFLOPS
ROPs3216
TMUs8032

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 2.0 x16PCIe 3.0 x8
Length279 mm145 mm
Width2-slot1-slot
Supplementary power connectors1x 6-pin + 1x 8-pinNone

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 typeGDDR5GDDR6
Maximum RAM amount2 GB4 GB
Memory bus width256 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed1200 MHz1500 MHz
Memory bandwidth153.6 GB/s96 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 Connectors6x mini-DisplayPort1x DVI, 1x HDMI 2.0, 1x DisplayPort 1.4a
HDMI-+

API compatibility

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

DirectX11.2 (11_0)12 (12_1)
Shader Model5.06.6
OpenGL4.44.6
OpenCL1.23.0
VulkanN/A1.3
CUDA-7.5

Pros & cons summary


Recency 11 March 2010 28 June 2022
Maximum RAM amount 2 GB 4 GB
Chip lithography 40 nm 12 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 228 Watt 75 Watt

GTX 1630 has an age advantage of 12 years, a 100% higher maximum VRAM amount, a 233.3% more advanced lithography process, and 204% lower power consumption.

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ATI Radeon HD 5870 Eyefinity 6
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