News Nvidia GeForce GTX 1630 Briefly Appears on Colorful Website

[Admin]

The disastrous showing of the Intel Arc A380 in Chinese reviews may have inspired enough confidence in Nvidia to release a cheaper trimmed down GTX 1650 relative.

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[twocows360]

What I'd really like to know is whether the 1630 will have any NVENC support. The 1650 and its underlying architecture has it, but Nvidia has been known to slash those features on budget cards to save on (I believe) licensing costs for the technology.

I'm interested in these low end cards because they're the only ones with heat profiles in the reasonable range; I live in a small room and already have issues with temperature control without an Nvidia Portable Sun contributing to the problem. And honestly, if I can play games at 1080p on low-medium with a consistent 60+ framerate, I'm in a good spot.

 

[JarredWaltonGPU]

What I'd really like to know is whether the 1630 will have any NVENC support. The 1650 and its underlying architecture has it, but Nvidia has been known to slash those features on budget cards to save on (I believe) licensing costs for the technology.

I'm interested in these low end cards because they're the only ones with heat profiles in the reasonable range; I live in a small room and already have issues with temperature control without an Nvidia Portable Sun contributing to the problem. And honestly, if I can play games at 1080p on low-medium with a consistent 60+ framerate, I'm in a good spot.

The TU117 has the older Volta NVENC, while the 1650 Super's TU116 has the newer Turing NVENC. I'd be surprised if Nvidia cut off the NVENC support, but stranger things have happened. NVENC would definitely put Nvidia ahead of RX 6400 in that area, which is probably the bigger target than Arc A380.

 

[hannibal]

So a GPU that people may afford to buy?
Good

 

[Giroro]

Why would the GTX 1630 and 1650 have a different number of cores per SM?

 

[gg83]

The TU117 has the older Volta NVENC, while the 1650 Super's TU116 has the newer Turing NVENC. I'd be surprised if Nvidia cut off the NVENC support, but stranger things have happened. NVENC would definitely put Nvidia ahead of RX 6400 in that area, which is probably the bigger target than Arc A380.

Hey Jarred, will all these low-end GPUs be obsolete with the arrival of the new APUs imminent?

 

[JarredWaltonGPU]

Hey Jarred, will all these low-end GPUs be obsolete with the arrival of the new APUs imminent?

That all depends on what AMD does with its desktop parts. We know the Rembrandt Ryzen 6000 series mobile APUs have up to 12 CUs and are paired with LPDDR5-6400 memory, but there's no desktop equivalent yet, and may never be.

Some are hoping Ryzen 7000 series APUs will have up to 16 CUs, others think maybe 12 CUs, and I've even seen hints that they could be as little as 4 CUs — basically just a minimum level of graphics functionality, similar to Intel's UHD Graphics 770 that only has 32 EUs where the laptops can go up to 96 EUs.

A 12 CU Ryzen 7000 APU clocking the graphics at over 2GHz and paired with DDR5 memory would at least be competitive with the RX 6400 — less bandwidth (and it's shared), but a closer link to the CPU might make that a moot point. Probably call it a slight advantage for the RX 6400 in gaming performance, but the Ryzen APUs will have all the missing media encoding functionality that Navi 24 lacks. If it's only 4 or 8 CUs, though, it's not going to be very useful for anything more than 720p gaming.