NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1630

Compare NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 8 GB vs NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1630, specs and GPU benchmark score. Which is the better graphics card for the money?

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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1630

Price

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$ 320.00

$ 149.99

$ 170.01 significantly less expensive

Benchmark Score

Overall Score

General gaming and workstation score

3644 points

176% significantly better overall score

1317 points

Flux Core frame rate

Volumetric ray casting test, a computationally expensive method of rendering high-quality scenes

72 FPS

47 FPS significantly higher Flux Core frame rate

25 FPS

Electron frame rate

Randomly generated noise sphere test

59 FPS

41 FPS significantly higher Electron frame rate

18 FPS

City frame rate

Procedurally generated city scene with voxel rendering

46 FPS

26 FPS significantly higher City frame rate

21 FPS

Clouds frame rate

Real-time noise calculation and ray marching test

48 FPS

34 FPS significantly higher Clouds frame rate

14 FPS

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Other Benchmarks

Blender score

Cycles Render (Samples per minute)

558.86 points

110% significantly higher Blender score

265.26 points

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

OpenCL compute benchmark

50172 points

101% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (OpenCL) score

24898 points

Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

Vulkan compute benchmark

49876 points

111% significantly higher Geekbench 6 (Vulkan) score

23619 points

Specifications

Core Clock Speed

Nominal chip frequency

1506 MHz

1740 MHz

15% slightly higher core clock speed

Boost Clock Speed

Higher turbo frequency when power conditions are met

1683 MHz

1785 MHz

6% slightly higher boost clock speed

Memory Bus Width

Number of parallel lines to the memory chips

256 Bit

300% significantly larger memory bus width

64 Bit

Memory Bandwidth

Data transfer speed between GPU core and memory

256.30 GB/s

166% significantly higher memory bandwidth

96 GB/s

TDP

Thermal Design Power: Measure of heat generated by the GPU

150 W

75 W

100% significantly lower TDP

Pixel Rate

Number of pixels that can be rendered per second

107.7 Gigapixels/s

277% significantly higher pixel rate

28.56 Gigapixels/s

Texture Rate

Number of textured pixels that can be rendered per second

202 Gigatexels/s

253% significantly higher texture rate

57.12 Gigatexels/s

Floating Point Performance

Raw number of floating point operations per second

6.46 TFLOPS

253% significantly better floating point performance

1.83 TFLOPS

Shading Units

Number of processors dedicated to shader processing

1920

274% significantly more shading units

512

Texture Mapping Units

Number of processors dedicated to applying textures

120

274% significantly more texture mapping units

Render Output Processors

Number of processors dedicated to final pixel rendering

300% significantly more render output processors

Other details

Rank

Ranking in the hardwareDB database

134th of 586

242nd of 586

Release date

The official date of release of this chip

2016 June

2022 June

Memory Type

The type of memory used by this chip

GDDR5

GDDR6

DirectX Support

Maximum version of DirectX supported

12.0

OpenGL Support

Maximum version of OpenGL supported

4.5

4.6

GeForce GTX 1070 vs GeForce GTX 1630 comparison

In our benchmarks, the GeForce GTX 1070 beats the GeForce GTX 1630 in gaming performance.

In our comparison, the GeForce GTX 1630 has a slightly higher core clock speed. This is the frequency at which the graphics core is running at. While not necessarily an indicator of overall performance, this metric can be useful when comparing two GPUs based on the same architecture. In addition, the GeForce GTX 1630 also has a slightly higher boost clock speed. The boost clock speed is the frequency that the GPU core can reach if the temperature is low enough. The allows for higher performance in certain scenarios.

In addition, the GeForce GTX 1630 has a significantly lower TDP at 75 W when compared to the GeForce GTX 1070 at 150 W. This is not a measure of performance, but rather the amount of heat generated by the chip when running at its highest speed.

In conclusion, all specs and GPU benchmarks considered, will recommend the GeForce GTX 1070 over the GeForce GTX 1630.