GeForce GTX 1630 vs GeForce GTX 460 SE

Intro

Compare those specifications to the GeForce GTX 460 SE, which comes with core speeds of 650 MHz on the GPU, and 850 MHz on the 1024 MB of GDDR5 RAM. It features 288 SPUs along with 48 Texture Address Units and 32 ROPs.

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Power Usage and Theoretical Benchmarks

Power Consumption (Max TDP)

GeForce GTX 1630		75 Watts
GeForce GTX 460 SE		150 Watts
	Difference: 75 Watts (100%)

Memory Bandwidth

The GeForce GTX 460 SE should in theory perform just a bit faster than the GeForce GTX 1630 in general. (explain)

GeForce GTX 460 SE		108800 MB/sec
GeForce GTX 1630		98304 MB/sec
	Difference: 10496 (11%)

Texel Rate

The GeForce GTX 1630 is a lot (more or less 78%) better at anisotropic filtering than the GeForce GTX 460 SE. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1630		55680 Mtexels/sec
GeForce GTX 460 SE		31200 Mtexels/sec
	Difference: 24480 (78%)

Pixel Rate

If using a high screen resolution is important to you, then the GeForce GTX 1630 is superior to the GeForce GTX 460 SE, by far. (explain)

GeForce GTX 1630		27840 Mpixels/sec
GeForce GTX 460 SE		20800 Mpixels/sec
	Difference: 7040 (34%)

Please note that the above 'benchmarks' are all just theoretical - the results were calculated based on the card's specifications, and real-world performance may (and probably will) vary at least a bit.

Price Comparison

Specifications

Memory Bandwidth: Bandwidth is the largest amount of information (measured in MB per second) that can be transported across the external memory interface within a second. It is worked out by multiplying the bus width by its memory speed. If the card has DDR type memory, it should be multiplied by 2 once again. If DDR5, multiply by ANOTHER 2x. The higher the card's memory bandwidth, the faster the card will be in general. It especially helps with AA, HDR and high resolutions.

Texel Rate: Texel rate is the maximum amount of texture map elements (texels) that can be processed in one second. This number is worked out by multiplying the total amount of texture units of the card by the core clock speed of the chip. The higher the texel rate, the better the graphics card will be at handling texture filtering (anisotropic filtering - AF). It is measured in millions of texels per second.

Pixel Rate: Pixel rate is the maximum amount of pixels that the graphics chip could possibly write to its local memory in a second - measured in millions of pixels per second. Pixel rate is worked out by multiplying the number of Raster Operations Pipelines by the the core speed of the card. ROPs (Raster Operations Pipelines - also sometimes called Render Output Units) are responsible for outputting the pixels (image) to the screen. The actual pixel rate is also dependant on lots of other factors, especially the memory bandwidth - the lower the bandwidth is, the lower the potential to get to the maximum fill rate.