Nvidia's purported GTX 1630, a potential competitor in the budget GPU market, has had its release delayed and, according to a new rumor, won't appear until June 15.
This low-end graphics card, the first xx30 model in the GTX family, if it's real as promised, was supposed to debut today, but Nvidia's schedule was obviously pushed back a few weeks.
According to sources accessed by VideoCardz (opens in a new tab), June 15 is now the date to mark in your journal, and that's for getting the card on the shelves, not just an initial reveal (and it may be that no review samples were also sent to the press).
Take all of the above with the proper dose of seasoning, as always, and the same goes for the spec information provided by VideoCardz, with an alleged memory bandwidth of just 96 GB/s (using a 64-bit memory bus). , with the graphics card apparently equipped with 4GB of 6Gbps GDDR12 VRAM).
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As VideoCardz points out, if true, this represents a performance bottleneck for the GTX 1630, which fares much worse than the GTX 1650 with GDDR6 memory (at 192GB/s). In fact, that's even less than the GTX 1050 Ti (at 112 GB/s), which was an older graphics card at the time (it was released in 2016).
As we have discussed in the past, although it seems weak at first glance, the 1630 could have a (supposedly) higher clock speed even than the GTX 1650, but there is a lot of concern on this topic, which could leave the GPU underpowered. . and not even able to match the performance of a 1050 Ti.
VideoCardz notes that the supposed 3DMark performance will leave the 1630 slightly behind the 1050 Ti, but in reality, we'll have to wait to see the finalized specs and test the graphics card before drawing any broader conclusions on frame rates.
There is a lot of confusion around the speed of this graphics card and as people rightly ask, if it is really disappointing in terms of raw power, why did Nvidia make it a GTX model, indicating that it is aimed at the players (as opposed to home theater PCs, for example, or other less demanding applications).
Another possibility is that Nvidia is really cheap with the price, but that would be very contrary to the general flow of the market at the moment, although prices are constantly falling, they are still hardly affordable.
And anyway, in that case, we still wouldn't understand why it's not the GT 1630, instead of the GTX 1630 (unless Nvidia sends us a message that GTX no longer indicates a gaming card and that its positioning of mark is the displacement). We guess time will tell, and at least we only have a few weeks to wait in theory before we see this graphics card go haywire.
It's also worth noting that AMD might have an answer to Nvidia's new budget GPU, a purported RX 6300 graphics card, though if it's real, that new Team Red model is certainly not imminent.
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