GeForce GTX 1630 vs Xe Arctic Sound

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Primary details

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

Place in the rankingnot rated385
Place by popularitynot in top-100not in top-100
Power efficiencyno data11.93
ArchitectureGeneration 12.5 (2021−2023)Turing (2018−2022)
GPU code nameArctic SoundTU117
Market segmentDesktopDesktop
Release dateno data (2024 years ago)28 June 2022 (2 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 cores4096512
Core clock speed900 MHz1740 MHz
Boost clock speedno data1785 MHz
Number of transistors8,000 million4,700 million
Manufacturing process technology10 nm12 nm
Power consumption (TDP)500 Watt75 Watt
Texture fill rate230.457.12
Floating-point processing power7.373 TFLOPS1.828 TFLOPS
ROPs12816
TMUs25632

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 4.0 x16PCIe 3.0 x8
Length267 mm145 mm
Width2-slot1-slot
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 typeHBM2eGDDR6
Maximum RAM amount32 GB4 GB
Memory bus width4096 Bit64 Bit
Memory clock speed2.4 GB/s1500 MHz
Memory bandwidth1,229 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 ConnectorsNo outputs1x 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.

DirectX12 (12_1)12 (12_1)
Shader Model6.56.6
OpenGL4.64.6
OpenCL3.03.0
VulkanN/A1.3
CUDA-7.5

Pros & cons summary


Maximum RAM amount 32 GB 4 GB
Chip lithography 10 nm 12 nm
Power consumption (TDP) 500 Watt 75 Watt

Xe Arctic Sound has a 700% higher maximum VRAM amount, and a 20% more advanced lithography process.

GTX 1630, on the other hand, has 566.7% lower power consumption.

We couldn't decide between Xe Arctic Sound and GeForce GTX 1630. We've got no test results to judge.


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