@oxfordsparky it's fine as an upgrade for an old machine, or a used office pc. You can play plenty of games on it if you don't expect it to be great at new AAA titles. A 1050ti class card is more capable than you'd think if you manage expectations. Probably on par with a launch ps4 or so.
The 1630 is what you find in those "gaming" systems listed on places like Amazon and eBay from people who put older parts in a case with RGB lighting and pay a premium for a system that will struggle with anything but eSports titles at low settings.
The 1630 would have been "ok" if it was the size of a stick of SODIMM RAM with no fans or heatsinks that could fit into the smallest of smallest mini systems. Instead it's a brick that is outperformed by other bricks from 10 years ago.
If you get a 3gb(somewhat rare now) version of the GTX 660 TI, it does perform better than the 1630. If you get two 3gb versions of the GTX660 TI in SLI they perform much better than a 1630. But that just depends on what game.
@@afterglow3557 Except, it's draws more power than the 1630, SLI is dead, pretty much no newer motherboard has an SLI badge AND driver support is out of the question.
I agree, this is not a bad GPU, it just has a bad price. If this came out for $50-70 this would've been a good GPU to put it in an office PC or an old DELL Optiplex build. The GTX 1630 is good enough if you do E-Sports titles or low demanding games.
The thing I didn't understand is how the card didn't come with no pcie power connector by default. That is the only market this thing should fill as a 1050ti alternative.
@zhila5958 they both are shit though since most of the systems you'd put an rx6400 in are pcie Gen3 or less. Both companies taking advantage of desperation.
@@aboveaveragebayleaf9216 The 6400 works well in a PCIe 3.0 system and is much higher performance than the 1630, I only ever used mine in a 3.0. Even with a couple fps lopped off it's still way faster. The single slot LP design one is the cheapest and all are slot-power only so at least the 6400 fits a (small) niche tho still too expensive IMO. The 1630 fits a price point for Nvidia and that's it.
I love the irony in the only cards you should ever want to use DLSS and/or FrameGen with are completely incapable of using their own manufacturer's technology. nVidia truly is a wonder of the modern age.
on its own the power usage is pretty good. but considering the 1650 uses nearly identical power (max 75 watt) while giving better performance means even that targument is not really valid. The 1630 really is a waste of money.
Only reason to buy if it is your only option to upgrade an older Optiplex/prebuilt that doesn't have a PSU with 6-pin or 8-pin PCI-E power connectors. If one does you're getting off getting a used GTX 960 or better yet something even better like GTX 1060 3GB or the RX 470 used. They'll perform better in 95% of games and be cheaper!
I checked the uk market, £150 new. An absolutely awful price as even the rx 6500xt is far more powerful and cheaper. Even the rx6400 is better in performance and starts at £115. There is pretty much no reason for the 1630 to exist
Cannot see how you can recommend a 4090 in a discussion about budget graphics cards. Clearly the 4090ti is the answer. Anything less and I might as well get an xbos series s
i get buying used is "risky" but i'd rather eat the cost of a 580/1070 than buy this shit new, also you can never tell people your system specs they *will* laugh when you mention the 1630
Holly crap I just checked prices here in Poland. How the hell this rubbish card cost similarly to RX6600 (that is actually very usable) is completely beyond me .
@@lil_per_vert Depends on price and the types of game you want to play. If you're planning on playing at 1080p med-high settings, it might be enough, depending on the game. It can handle Cyberpunk and Red Dead just fine, though it's starting to show its age when trying to run anything that's much newer
I remember how much negative press the 6500XT got on release however, at the time, it was a god-send for people who couldnt get a new GPU at a reasonable price. I got one and I use it in a PC and it purrs along just nicely. The 1630 did also get a bad time when released but I bet that it sold well to those who were running APUs and suffering for it. Thanks for the video :-)
Same! I also put pcie 4.0 into consideration by pairing it with an 11400F and its been a beast of a card considering i havent had a gpu since my ati radeon from many years ago. However it has some coil whine in oddly specific cases such as clearing the screen in oe cake which can be solved by capping the fps and stressing it for a pretty long time
Absolutely no reason why this card should be full height or dual slot with a power connector. It's ridiculous how overbuilt it is for how poorly it performs. Should have been a single slot low profile card akin to the Radeon 6400 that could be thrown into any old office PC to at least let you play a few games on it.
When will they release a new 30 series card and will it be faster than a flagship from less than 10 years ago? If they could release a say 4030 or whatever with the performance of a 1070 or 1080 for less than $150 they'd really have something but seeing how the 4060 has performed...I don't think so.
honestly in maybe two years this will be a 900P GPU, it's a disappointing GPU, the low profile models are good for old SSF computers for emulation and playing old games otherwise it's useless. thanks for this benchmark.
where I live they tried so hard to sell me that card but I opted for the 1050ti (4gb) stormX Palet the one without the power connectors... such good choice... only have to redo the thermal paste once in a while when temps go up ,,, I bought mine in early 2020 and never had any issues with it otherwise apart from a mistake over clocking it a little which made it act up but restore it back to its defaults and never bothered again .. why tweak something that works just fine for me!! good video as per
Oh god, this card... It's not a successor to the 1030 when a lot of models require a power connector (oh, and the card is too expensive anyway) and it's not a gaming card due to the poor performance you're getting. You might as well get a 1050ti, which performs slightly better, but I know the 1050Ti's limits because I have one in my gaming laptop!
My dads work just got these instead of the 3070 like I reconmended for CAD work and they already went back to their RX480s after using them for a few weeks.
@@GoonyMclinux People think they know better, for some reason. Had a friend that always did that, ask me how to do something then do everything the opposite of what I said then complain that it didn't turn out good like mine. Well of f**king course, I told you how to do ot correctly. As for OP maybe the guy thought they would be as good but cheaper ? I dunno, if you have no idea about computer hardware maybe listen to the man that does. Which begs the question, who is running CAD and is completely oblivious to the hardware to do stuff properly ? It's like my stepdad who wanted to build a computer so he could record music and then just bought completely worthless components (twice).
@@Gatorade69 I have people ask me all the time for a variety of topics, I eventually stopped trying to help because people literally never care what you said. No I just say I can't help unless I build it to my specs or whatnot. 🤣
basically its a 710, nothing more then a fancy display adapter. But pretty sure the OEM's are happy about this card, because they can write nVidea GTX on it.
If there's a way, these pc games should be tested on the highest end flagship smartphones for instance the ROG phone 7 ultimate. I've got a feeling that it might show better performance than the cheap gpus out there! (if there's proper driver support ig)
When people can buy a used rx 580 or a used gtx 1080 for a similar price, then it kinda doesn't make sense to get one of these, especially since it still needs an additional power plug, like the one you've got.
@TheRealJohnHooper gtx 1080, recently upgraded from an rx580. Looking to upgrade to at least an rx 6800. I recently bought the gtx 1080 for a little over $100 on ebay. I bought the rx 580 over a year ago for about $115. There's a lot of good deals out there if you look for one. The gtx 1630 isn't even a good deal if you're looking for a low profile card, because gtx 1650s also work in that situation.
@@mew2.025 i have also gtx 1080. I think for us is the best 6700 xt, 3070 (though it lacks more vram), 3080, or rtx 4070. 4070 is good because of low power usage, probably the best card if someone is looking at power usage, though prices for rtx 4*** are all over the place.
@@ToniFalck The problem with the RTX 20-series, is that at least the early ones, reportedly come with defective VRAM chips! I suspect the Supers have a next-to-zero-percent chance of this, OTOH.
My sister got a 1030 DDR4 instead of GDDR5 so we send it back and she had the choice between 1630 and RX 6400. Glad she went with AMD, it's a really nice small GPU.
I totally forgot about this card. Also the 1030, you don't see them anywhere in the secondhand market. They were the card to settle for during the pandemic.
I had a GTX 1650. It could run games like fallout almost fine with bottlenecks. I am fine with my GTX 1070 from ebay for now. But for new fallout game i would consider to switch to a new RTX graphics.
07:20 : do you think that a GTX1050Ti would get 36fps average on Hogwarts Legacy ? i'm not so sure... perhaps a revisit of the GTX1050Ti in those same games would be a good idea , but in any case , personally , i would choose a *Turing low-end GPU* over a Pascal low-end GPU. (happy birthday GTX1630 )
@@naamadossantossilva4736 2018 was the first year that I can remember video card price-overcharging in the form of taking a lower grade and raising it to the same ballpark figure as the normal price for the next model, if not two models up! I knew people were being ripped off when I saw a 1050 series at 1060 3 GB prices! '21 of course, takes the cake.
I know running recent games is good to see how the card handles those games. But with the rise of indie games and a lot of cases of them outselling modern games. Would be interesting to see a indie only set up. Then with a few FP2 games thrown in. Maybe find a sweet spot for price and performance.
1050 ti’s are pretty expensive where (I live still I live in Mexico btw) they’re about 130-150 for them and these are about 10-20 dollars cheaper sometimes so these are a better option I would say where I live considering the extra support since it’s a newer card
Yep, pretty much only worth it, if you have Intel integrated graphics to use Quick Sync or another card for a capture card, LOL. Otherwise, recording can be slideshow!
Is Palit a European brand? I'm really not familiar with them aside from occasionally hearing them mentioned, and it's usually mentioned by people from the UK.
I can't believe that the 1630 is really a thing. The power consumption is almost the same as the 1650 at 75W and yet it's just a 1050-Ti with slightly worse performance. Couldn't they just continue in the 1650 or 1660 version? The partnered manufacturers are also getting out of hand since 2020. Powercolor, PNY, Gainward, Inno3D (That one with those ancient GPUs back from the 90s), WHO ARE THEY? They literally have the crappiest designs. Each partnered manufacturer has different clock and memory speeds. There's a small 1650 with no external power and with an aluminum heatsink, meanwhile somewhere in the universe, there's a 1650 with 6 or 8-pin power connector and a giant ass heatsink with 2 heatpipes holding the temps under 50°C all time. I think there must be some rules so we could prevent the waste. I understand that all manufacturers make a potential cut out of each GPU bought, but It's pretty unfair to make a GPU with the same die, but with a different power.
What about using it in something like a PLEX server, I am not sure if it has an encoder or anything, but just wondering if that would be a good use for one
You don't need to go for a 2nd hand 1050, just get a rx580 or a 1660S/ti for 60-90$. Sure they've been mined but if U inspect the card carefully and find a healthy one, after some cleanup-repaste it's gonna be MUCH better value than this one
If someone buying one for old systems power connector or not is not a big deal. You'll need adapters, yes. But every PSU in these systems can support this GPU anyway, power consumption is low and only reason why they've put connector on them was that some OEM boards can't provide standard 75W through PCI reliably ("screw standards, just put cheap crap on marke and nobody will ever notice" mentality of these companies). But please, don't buy this junk anyway :)
It's far worse than a RX 6500xt! It can run circles around the GTX 1630. If I had an optiplex, I would use a RX 6400. Nvidia was high thinking the GTX 1630 can compete in this price range. The 6500xt is a terrible gpu. But the 1630 is even worse gpu of 2022!
This is not a worthy successor to the 1030. I had a 1030, it rarely consumed over 20Ws. The 1630 consumes about the triple of that for delivering double preformance. That would be acceptable if the 1630 would cost almost the same as the 1030.
GTX 1630, GTX 1630, GTX 1630, THIS IS WHAT THIS REVIEW IS ABOUT FOR THE THOSE LIKE ME WHO DID NOT KNOW BEFORE THEY STARTED WATCHING THIS VIDEO. Here's a piece of advice dude, put the name of the graphics card you are reviewing into your title! 🙂
@@RandomGaminginHD i watched your most recent review on one and then seen this one in my local CEX, i was on a sapphire nitro 8gb rx570 wasn't really looking to upgrade but thought as i've got a 2nd gen r7 2700 having a spare gpu on hand isn't a bad call
@@Rapscallion2009 i bought it as a spare to keep my aging system going, they are still getting updates currently how long it'll continue is unknown though. it's supported in all current games i play and should continue to be able to play same games, obviously there will come a point where future games won't be supported but i imagine the hardware may become the limiting factor over the drivers
Quite comically, this card still is, in most cases, just as expensive as 1650 with like 40% less performance. What a weird artifact of the broken pandemic-era market that somehow never moved to an appropriate niche. If it was at least power efficient...
I have no idea why this card even exist. 1-its worse than 1650 by large margin 2-more expensive than rx 6400 and have much worse performance 3-almost all models have 8pins unlike the more powerful 1650 for some reason (not 100% sure)
Seems many gamers here are hating NVidia GTX 1630, AMD RX6400 and Intel ARC A380 just because they can't run games at larger resolutions at fullscreen and obviously on the highest settings! But actually the intention of the 1630 is exactly that - to be an entry-level gaming card, not a high-end one, like RTX 3090Ti / 3080 / 4090 / 4080. Actually some of higher-end GPUs are also suffering an overprizing as well. Actually 1630 has some advantages: 1. It fully supports NVidia Shadow Play's game recording and has both h.264 and h.265 (HEVC) encoding, while the direct budget AMD competitors RX6400 and 6500XT doesn't even have any kind of encoding or gameplay recording at all; 2. GTX 1630's NVidia drivers are far superior and much more stable working on both desktop, video playback and running games, same applies for AMD RX 6400 as well, while on Intel ARC A380' side, driver support is… Ouch! It's drivers, even a bit improved now, are stills prone to be unstable and crashing randomly, games suddenly stops working and are crashing, some of them just aren't even working or launching at all on the Intel entry-level ARC GPU, and can even lead to a BSODs forcing to restart entire PC; 3. As author is noted, this card is better for putting into a old business PC, or in a workstation like Lenovo, Dell, Fujitsu, HP, etc. that has a PCI-E 3.0 instead of PCI-E 4.0 as on such PC the GTX 1630 that has x16 lines would not suffer from any performance loss, unlike its AMD competitor AMD RX 6400 that is PCI-E 4.0 and x4 lines only which would suffer noticeable loss of its performance, same applies for the Intel ARC A380, beside its still pretty problematic partially unstable drivers, it also would have a massive stutter / lagging if it is put into a similar old cheap and high-quality, but old business HP / Dell / Lenovo business PC or workstation as these cannot have enabled in any way the required by the ARC series' Intel ResizeBar; 4. 1630 consumes pretty much low power on Idle, multi-monitor and during playing videos, as Tech Power-up states that on their tests the power consumption by the GTX 1630 itself being only 4W, 11W and 6W respectively. For comparison, the ARC A380 has pretty high power draw at idle state and higher during video playback, respectively 17W and 19W. I think GTX 1630 is still good for an entry-level and very-budget GPU. I think the author should test games on 1630, but also on Windowed Mode at lower resolutions, like HD+ 900p, HD Ready 768p or 720p, also to test the games again on FullHD 1080p but with AMD FSR Quality and Balanced settings enabled, as I'm assume that on the FSR's Performance and Ultra Performance settings the graphic might become looking pretty downscaled and bad, so I wouldn't recommend these anyway. I think the GTX 1630 has only one weakness compared to its strengths I mentioned above and that is the lack of support for NVidia DLSS that for a entry-level budget card would be a very welcome addition, but this is because it falls on GTX 16xx series, and DLSS itself is available only for the RTX 20xx or later series of NVidia GPUs.
@TheRealJohnHooper I know for the GTX 1650. The real issue is that, the majority of those nice PC cheap business PCs' are coming with their property, very high-quality and outputs an extremely stable wattage / amperage output without any fluctuations, but they're often with a smaller maximum wattage and here's the nasty thing - they're also not having a connector for additional power for an external GPU. I remember, in one past period - 2010-2017, there was both NVidia and AMD GPUs that along with their High-end and Mid-range products that was also releasing a budget and entry-level GPUs compatible with these old-school HP / Lenovo / Dell PCs and workstations, including a low-profile variant that nowadays are pretty much lacking. My first PC gaming was a Dell OptiPlex 745 with Pentium D 925 and AMD Radeon HD 5670 DDR5 128-bit with 512 MB VRAM that at that time was costing about 100-120 Bulgarian Leva that in your currency in United States is around USA $65-75. Then I got a Dell Precision 3400 that has a Core 2 Quad 9450 Quad Core and used an NVidia GT 730 64-bit, I do note this was the DDR5 variant because there's also variant of 730 with DDR3 as well, as GT 730 was costing around BGN 170 leva, which converted to your United States' currency is about USA $95. However, since past the AMD RX4xx and RX5xx series and the NVidia GTX 16xx series, both companies doesn't seems to make much anymore a entry-level or a low-profile GPUs for business small-form factor (the most used abbreviature is being SFF) or any of those older PCs as average. When come to more recent GPUs, the only ones released as a low-profile compatible or can run without any additional power are being: NVidia Quadro T400 and T600 that are lacking ShadowPlay's recording as these being a professional GPUs mainly used for rendering CAD software as Maya or AutoCAD; GTX A2000 that support both NVidia's ShadowPlay recording and Video Encoding, this low-profile GPUs is known to be insane expensive for its performance, and is stills selling for over 600+ USD for its GTX 1650's performance and its price at same time is nearly doubled of that of the newly released RTX 4060 that 's going to to be costing only around USD $300-320 dollars maximum; lastly, AMD RX 6400 which is lacking video encoding and AMD Relive game capturing. Unfortunately, seems almost all GPUs released at the last around 5 years are ones that're more power-hungry and only runs with an additional power-connector! For comparison back in previous times there's was a weaker GPU with narrower width-bus but with GDDR5 memory that would run on these older quality business PCs without any power connector, and to play games at 720p / 768p / 900p or 1080p at Medium, Medium-High or Low graphic Settings. Such very affordable GPUs are being mostly a NVidia ones - GT 710, 730, 1030 and 1050 and 1050Ti, and AMD RX550 and only recently - the RX 6400. Now the last NVidia GPU that can be put at older business PCs without relying to mandatory additional power connector is being GTX 1650 as you're said, but that's only for its original GDDR5 released variant, actually the GTX 1630 and the updated variant of GTX 1650 - Super, that, like the 1630, also having a GDDR6 memory, both of them are relying to using an additional power connector. This might be the reason why so much the all videos about using such older business PCs for gaming or for entry-level gaming are telling only either AMD RX 6400 or a GPUs from both NVidia and AMD that are least 3-4 years old already! On the last three NVidia's RTX generations - 20xx, 30xx and 40xx, there's still absolutely nothing (NOT even a single GPU present!) in the budget and entry-level segment, all of the released GPUs so far are falling into the High-end and Mid-Range categories ONLY.
This was a vile restock from Nvidia to "fill in the gpu shortage"
And just like last year, nobody will buy it
Literal bottom of the barrel silicon
@Cool_Moo5e yeah, like it's okay for what it is, but should have been cheaper, and no pcie connector.
@@aboveaveragebayleaf9216 how would you use it exactly?
@oxfordsparky it's fine as an upgrade for an old machine, or a used office pc. You can play plenty of games on it if you don't expect it to be great at new AAA titles. A 1050ti class card is more capable than you'd think if you manage expectations. Probably on par with a launch ps4 or so.
The 1630 is what you find in those "gaming" systems listed on places like Amazon and eBay from people who put older parts in a case with RGB lighting and pay a premium for a system that will struggle with anything but eSports titles at low settings.
"ULTRA FAST GAMING PC"
Isn't that the gt710?
That and the amd 10 core rigs which are just old fm2 CPUs
I saw number of times they put gtx 1050 and 1030 in "gaming machine" still :D
@@irgendwerirgendwo9095GT 710 + Sandy Bridge Intel Core 2th gen
The 1630 would have been "ok" if it was the size of a stick of SODIMM RAM with no fans or heatsinks that could fit into the smallest of smallest mini systems. Instead it's a brick that is outperformed by other bricks from 10 years ago.
On the positive side, GTX 1630 performs about the same level as GTX 590, the topmost GPU just over a decade ago
the gtx 1630 is worse than 1050ti but requires a power connection, that's bad
is it not a 75ish watt card? If not that is bad.
12 years ago and the 590 is 2 times faster in sli games.
@@David_Quinn_PhotographyIt is but still requires a 6 pin bcs of the terrible sillicon quality.
@@costi2596 my bad. I compared the benchmark with the SLI disabled version of 590 (effectively a 580)
From what I can tell, the 1630 hovers in the same tier as like, a GTX 660 Ti from 2012 - albeit with actual driver support and a bit more VRAM.
If you get a 3gb(somewhat rare now) version of the GTX 660 TI, it does perform better than the 1630. If you get two 3gb versions of the GTX660 TI in SLI they perform much better than a 1630. But that just depends on what game.
@@afterglow3557 that is so not worth it based on power consumption alone
@@afterglow3557 SLI is irrelevant as of now, games still mostly harness most perf from a single gpu anyway
gtx 680*
@@afterglow3557 Except, it's draws more power than the 1630, SLI is dead, pretty much no newer motherboard has an SLI badge AND driver support is out of the question.
you could pick up a used 1070 for around the same price as the 1630. Just food for thought
Yeah the 1070 is a great bargain right now
used 1070's are the bread and butter of medium high 100+fps at 1080p
@@RandomGaminginHDi got a 1070ti for 85$ bucks used its amazing now i need a 4k monitor
That "Happy birthday" banner has more effort than whatever Nvidia is doing with this GPU.
I agree, this is not a bad GPU, it just has a bad price. If this came out for $50-70 this would've been a good GPU to put it in an office PC or an old DELL Optiplex build. The GTX 1630 is good enough if you do E-Sports titles or low demanding games.
It’s a disgrace
Exactly, everything has a market if the price fits it in. This is an example of getting this completely wrong.
Eh eh, name me one GPU of the last decade that came out with this as MSRP from the start.... I dare you
This card was probably created from old leftover parts that were sitting in Nvidia’s stockroom for like 7 years
😂😂
The thing I didn't understand is how the card didn't come with no pcie power connector by default. That is the only market this thing should fill as a 1050ti alternative.
Yep
the 6400 does a way better job at filling that role while actually being efficient. the 1630 is just straight up crap tbh
@zhila5958 they both are shit though since most of the systems you'd put an rx6400 in are pcie Gen3 or less. Both companies taking advantage of desperation.
@@zhila5958 like I'm not saying the rx6400 performance isn't good for the size/wattage, but they missed the mark a bit in many ways.
@@aboveaveragebayleaf9216 The 6400 works well in a PCIe 3.0 system and is much higher performance than the 1630, I only ever used mine in a 3.0. Even with a couple fps lopped off it's still way faster. The single slot LP design one is the cheapest and all are slot-power only so at least the 6400 fits a (small) niche tho still too expensive IMO. The 1630 fits a price point for Nvidia and that's it.
I dont think I have seen any one else cover any Palit cards. I have always been curious. You also have the best garden aesthetic in the sector
I think the worst of em all is the RTX 4060, they just straight up scamming people and they ain't trying covering it up anymore.
The product itself is fine. The price at the other hand is too high. should be 199 at best.
suckers are buying 4060ti. they’ll probably think that POS is worth it at 300$. 300$ for a 1050 equivalent if 2023
honestly the 4060 ti is worse
@@DeadPhoenix86DPhe price and naming is just all wrong, Ngreedia is blatantly trying to take money now. That should be a 4050, maybe 4050 TI
I do like the 4060 for it’s frame gen features, handy for an old PC, but there are certainly better used deals that’s for sure
I love the irony in the only cards you should ever want to use DLSS and/or FrameGen with are completely incapable of using their own manufacturer's technology. nVidia truly is a wonder of the modern age.
on its own the power usage is pretty good. but considering the 1650 uses nearly identical power (max 75 watt) while giving better performance means even that targument is not really valid. The 1630 really is a waste of money.
Only reason to buy if it is your only option to upgrade an older Optiplex/prebuilt that doesn't have a PSU with 6-pin or 8-pin PCI-E power connectors.
If one does you're getting off getting a used GTX 960 or better yet something even better like GTX 1060 3GB or the RX 470 used. They'll perform better in 95% of games and be cheaper!
If the price was better, it'd make a great Hardware Transcoding card for Plex, but there are so many cheaper options that work well.
I checked the uk market, £150 new. An absolutely awful price as even the rx 6500xt is far more powerful and cheaper. Even the rx6400 is better in performance and starts at £115. There is pretty much no reason for the 1630 to exist
and if you can go another 35-50 quid, and have a half-decent PSU, you can go all the way to a 6600!
Just get a 4090
Cannot see how you can recommend a 4090 in a discussion about budget graphics cards. Clearly the 4090ti is the answer. Anything less and I might as well get an xbos series s
i get buying used is "risky" but i'd rather eat the cost of a 580/1070 than buy this shit new, also you can never tell people your system specs they *will* laugh when you mention the 1630
@mlordslav258 I'd take a gamble on a £60 soyo rx 580 from ali express over these if my psu could do it
Holly crap I just checked prices here in Poland. How the hell this rubbish card cost similarly to RX6600 (that is actually very usable) is completely beyond me .
Palit cards are my favourites, to be honest. I'm currently using a single-fan palit GTX 1660 Super and it's a pretty decent little card
Yep love palit cards. Often simple in design yet work cool and quietly
@@RandomGaminginHD exactly! i like to go for no-rgb builds so they fit in very well
Should i buy a used 1660 Super today ?
@@lil_per_vert It all comes down to the price. Not a bad card at all if you can get one for under $100.
@@lil_per_vert Depends on price and the types of game you want to play. If you're planning on playing at 1080p med-high settings, it might be enough, depending on the game. It can handle Cyberpunk and Red Dead just fine, though it's starting to show its age when trying to run anything that's much newer
How about a comparison video between an RDNA APU and this card? Maybe even RDNA2.
I remember how much negative press the 6500XT got on release however, at the time, it was a god-send for people who couldnt get a new GPU at a reasonable price. I got one and I use it in a PC and it purrs along just nicely. The 1630 did also get a bad time when released but I bet that it sold well to those who were running APUs and suffering for it. Thanks for the video :-)
Same! I also put pcie 4.0 into consideration by pairing it with an 11400F and its been a beast of a card considering i havent had a gpu since my ati radeon from many years ago. However it has some coil whine in oddly specific cases such as clearing the screen in oe cake which can be solved by capping the fps and stressing it for a pretty long time
Absolutely no reason why this card should be full height or dual slot with a power connector. It's ridiculous how overbuilt it is for how poorly it performs. Should have been a single slot low profile card akin to the Radeon 6400 that could be thrown into any old office PC to at least let you play a few games on it.
Palit probably reuses the same PCB and heatsink design for other cards as a cost-cutting measure
When will they release a new 30 series card and will it be faster than a flagship from less than 10 years ago? If they could release a say 4030 or whatever with the performance of a 1070 or 1080 for less than $150 they'd really have something but seeing how the 4060 has performed...I don't think so.
I’d love a 4030. Even if it matched the 1060 I’d be happy. Sell it for 100 or less than used 1060s and it would be so popular
I... Had no idea this existed. I am at a genuine loss that I missed this. I guess it is really that bad.
I still love to game with my RX570 to this day, it's an old warrior.
honestly in maybe two years this will be a 900P GPU, it's a disappointing GPU, the low profile models are good for old SSF computers for emulation and playing old games otherwise it's useless. thanks for this benchmark.
It already isn't really a 1080p gpu in New games.
@@aboveaveragebayleaf9216 yeah I agree
The fact that you'll most likely need FSR with this GPU tells you everything.
Didn't even know it existed. I do have a 1650 Super (amongst others) which I got new and runs great in my HTPC.
Love the 1650 super!
Should compare that to Intel Iris Xe 96, the Radeon 680M, 780M, Vega 8.
I think both 680m and 780m already beat it
Just love your content with cool background of garden !❤
Glad you enjoy it!
Cheers to Battle Bit Remastered for making this crappy card know the feeling of rendering something at over a hundred frames per second.
😂
where I live they tried so hard to sell me that card but I opted for the 1050ti (4gb) stormX Palet the one without the power connectors... such good choice... only have to redo the thermal paste once in a while when temps go up ,,, I bought mine in early 2020 and never had any issues with it otherwise apart from a mistake over clocking it a little which made it act up but restore it back to its defaults and never bothered again .. why tweak something that works just fine for me!! good video as per
Oh god, this card... It's not a successor to the 1030 when a lot of models require a power connector (oh, and the card is too expensive anyway) and it's not a gaming card due to the poor performance you're getting. You might as well get a 1050ti, which performs slightly better, but I know the 1050Ti's limits because I have one in my gaming laptop!
My dads work just got these instead of the 3070 like I reconmended for CAD work and they already went back to their RX480s after using them for a few weeks.
So they asked and then didn't do what you said? Why ask at all then?
@@GoonyMclinux People think they know better, for some reason. Had a friend that always did that, ask me how to do something then do everything the opposite of what I said then complain that it didn't turn out good like mine. Well of f**king course, I told you how to do ot correctly.
As for OP maybe the guy thought they would be as good but cheaper ? I dunno, if you have no idea about computer hardware maybe listen to the man that does. Which begs the question, who is running CAD and is completely oblivious to the hardware to do stuff properly ? It's like my stepdad who wanted to build a computer so he could record music and then just bought completely worthless components (twice).
@@Gatorade69 I have people ask me all the time for a variety of topics, I eventually stopped trying to help because people literally never care what you said. No I just say I can't help unless I build it to my specs or whatnot. 🤣
@@Gatorade69Why would they pitch an RX 480 for a 1630? Sounds like they downgraded to me.
@@Gatorade69 I'd hope it's faster than a 1650. It's just as fast as the 1060 or sometimes even faster.
I'm still amazed at how much better my old 1080 is compared to this 1 year old card....
the GTX 1080 it's still trading blows with the RTX 3060 except for the amount of vram... exactly like the RTX 4060
Yep, you know something's wrong, when it gets beat by a late-2010s video card!
basically its a 710, nothing more then a fancy display adapter. But pretty sure the OEM's are happy about this card, because they can write nVidea GTX on it.
Great video as usual
Thanks again!
If there's a way, these pc games should be tested on the highest end flagship smartphones for instance the ROG phone 7 ultimate. I've got a feeling that it might show better performance than the cheap gpus out there!
(if there's proper driver support ig)
You should test cards in Tabletop Simulator at Ultra settings for the funny
When people can buy a used rx 580 or a used gtx 1080 for a similar price, then it kinda doesn't make sense to get one of these, especially since it still needs an additional power plug, like the one you've got.
@TheRealJohnHooper gtx 1080, recently upgraded from an rx580. Looking to upgrade to at least an rx 6800. I recently bought the gtx 1080 for a little over $100 on ebay. I bought the rx 580 over a year ago for about $115. There's a lot of good deals out there if you look for one. The gtx 1630 isn't even a good deal if you're looking for a low profile card, because gtx 1650s also work in that situation.
@@mew2.025 i have also gtx 1080. I think for us is the best 6700 xt, 3070 (though it lacks more vram), 3080, or rtx 4070. 4070 is good because of low power usage, probably the best card if someone is looking at power usage, though prices for rtx 4*** are all over the place.
@@milosstojanovic4623upgraded from a 3 year old 2070 to a 4070 for 550€ used (for 1 month)
Sold the 2070 to my brother for cheap and built him a pc
@@ToniFalck The problem with the RTX 20-series, is that at least the early ones, reportedly come with defective VRAM chips! I suspect the Supers have a next-to-zero-percent chance of this, OTOH.
@@RJARRRPCGP i got it in 2020, certainly not early.
To be more specific Asus 2070 Strix oc
My sister got a 1030 DDR4 instead of GDDR5 so we send it back and she had the choice between 1630 and RX 6400. Glad she went with AMD, it's a really nice small GPU.
Yeah the 6400 is ok at the right price for sure, and brilliant in comparison to this lol
The "GTX" 1630? You're probably better off with a GTX 1060 3GB to be honest. They can be found for as little as $50 here in Canada.
Yep, the '1630 should be called "GT"!
I totally forgot about this card. Also the 1030, you don't see them anywhere in the secondhand market. They were the card to settle for during the pandemic.
I found a 980 ti and 1060 6gb for $50 and 1070 for as low as $65 and 1070 ti for $100, definitely not worth buying this thing
Curious how it stacks up to the A380 and rx 6400 respectively,Awesome benchmarking no assist just raw output,love it
It sits poorly against the RX 6400. Even that weedy card is 50% faster than the GTX 1630.
The 6400 destroys it. In fact the 6400 is slightly faster than the GTX1650 while consuming about 15-20 watts less. It's actually kind of impressive.
@@diegoleiva7242nope
Only in radeon games.
@@McLeonVPwhat are radeon games?
@@finnbianga4189 cod for example
Nvidia saw the rx 6400 and went, “wait we have to beat amd at having the worst gpu on the market” lmao
exactly.
Rx 5300 and rx 6400 xd
from $130-150 budget one of Best Gpu to get is a used gtx 1080,5700xt or for lower power Consumption Rx 6600
yeah the 6600 remains a great deal especially
I had a GTX 1650.
It could run games like fallout almost fine with bottlenecks.
I am fine with my GTX 1070 from ebay for now.
But for new fallout game i would consider to switch to a new RTX graphics.
07:20 : do you think that a GTX1050Ti would get 36fps average on Hogwarts Legacy ? i'm not so sure...
perhaps a revisit of the GTX1050Ti in those same games would be a good idea , but in any case , personally , i would choose a *Turing low-end GPU* over a Pascal low-end GPU.
(happy birthday GTX1630 )
Not sure why he's comparing it to the 1050ti. The 1630 performs similar to the 1050, while the 1650 performs similar to the 1050ti.
@@pengu6335Price.The 1050ti launched at $140,
@@naamadossantossilva4736 2018 was the first year that I can remember video card price-overcharging in the form of taking a lower grade and raising it to the same ballpark figure as the normal price for the next model, if not two models up! I knew people were being ripped off when I saw a 1050 series at 1060 3 GB prices! '21 of course, takes the cake.
As a video adapter+ for like, I dunno, 50-70 Quid then yeah, perhaps. The thing is though APUs have pushed beyond this
Yeah I think £79 would have been fair too.
I'd like too see how this holds up against the a380
The a380 is better, especially now with new drivers
@@RandomGaminginHD idk man you might need to make another good video too see how they preform against eachother....
Better pitted this card with rx 6400
Nvidia just be trolling us just to see if they can get away with it.
"Terrible value for money" seems to be the recurring trend of GPU's nowadays.
Would putting the setting a down to 720 high get you closer to 60 fps? Or would you still have to have the settings on low ?
it not bad gpu it bad price
Glad I picked up an RX580 for only $50 (Original box too)!
Bargain!
@@RandomGaminginHD Thanks, however the $14 shipping was a bit steep. At least it's a Nitro+
I got what looks like the best variant of XFX RX 580 in 2019, 1405 MHz GPU boost clock out-of-the-box. It was less than $300.
I know running recent games is good to see how the card handles those games. But with the rise of indie games and a lot of cases of them outselling modern games. Would be interesting to see a indie only set up. Then with a few FP2 games thrown in. Maybe find a sweet spot for price and performance.
i find it comical it sells for the exact same amount as the 1650, this realy should have been
For some reason I found this lower settings graphics in the Far Cry 6 game just looks a bit more realistic than the game in ultra
I buyed a 6500XT for $99 in 2022 and it came with a game for free (Dead Island 2). The 1630 is really not worth.
Awesome :)
1050 ti’s are pretty expensive where (I live still I live in Mexico btw) they’re about 130-150 for them and these are about 10-20 dollars cheaper sometimes so these are a better option I would say where I live considering the extra support since it’s a newer card
Oh yeah in that case this makes more sense
Thanks for including Battlebit Remastered
You must try games on 720p or even 600x800 with this card
a lot of those would be completely playable if you'd just lower the resolution down to 900 or 720p
Thought this video would be about the 6500xt. That was also a real awful card when it released.
Yep, pretty much only worth it, if you have Intel integrated graphics to use Quick Sync or another card for a capture card, LOL. Otherwise, recording can be slideshow!
Is Palit a European brand? I'm really not familiar with them aside from occasionally hearing them mentioned, and it's usually mentioned by people from the UK.
I have to be constantly reminded this card even exists, thanks Steve.
It's all relative to what game or games you want to play I guess then. But $80 would have been a more attractive price.
I can't believe that the 1630 is really a thing. The power consumption is almost the same as the 1650 at 75W and yet it's just a 1050-Ti with slightly worse performance. Couldn't they just continue in the 1650 or 1660 version? The partnered manufacturers are also getting out of hand since 2020. Powercolor, PNY, Gainward, Inno3D (That one with those ancient GPUs back from the 90s), WHO ARE THEY? They literally have the crappiest designs. Each partnered manufacturer has different clock and memory speeds. There's a small 1650 with no external power and with an aluminum heatsink, meanwhile somewhere in the universe, there's a 1650 with 6 or 8-pin power connector and a giant ass heatsink with 2 heatpipes holding the temps under 50°C all time. I think there must be some rules so we could prevent the waste. I understand that all manufacturers make a potential cut out of each GPU bought, but It's pretty unfair to make a GPU with the same die, but with a different power.
Never even knew those existed, only thought it was the 1650 and 1660
What about using it in something like a PLEX server, I am not sure if it has an encoder or anything, but just wondering if that would be a good use for one
Not worth it, get an older Quadro like P620 ($50 or less).
This card should be named GT 1630 not GTX 1630......
Cards like this should have a molex power connector if they’re going to have one at all.
Paired with the right CPU, this seems like it would give OG PS4 and Xbox One performance. Maybe the Pro and X.
This should’ve been called GT 1630 and its MSRP shouldn’t be any higher than 119$.
You don't need to go for a 2nd hand 1050, just get a rx580 or a 1660S/ti for 60-90$.
Sure they've been mined but if U inspect the card carefully and find a healthy one, after some cleanup-repaste it's gonna be MUCH better value than this one
This card doesn't even deserve GTX name for that performance. Should be GT card instead.
Man thanks for reminding this gpu exist i literary forgot about this thing
If someone buying one for old systems power connector or not is not a big deal. You'll need adapters, yes. But every PSU in these systems can support this GPU anyway, power consumption is low and only reason why they've put connector on them was that some OEM boards can't provide standard 75W through PCI reliably ("screw standards, just put cheap crap on marke and nobody will ever notice" mentality of these companies).
But please, don't buy this junk anyway :)
The fawkin low profile card is almost $200 on eBay!!!! WTF?? Same thing with the LP 1050 and 1050ti. I found a standard 1050 for 160 bucks. WTF?
It's far worse than a RX 6500xt! It can run circles around the GTX 1630. If I had an optiplex, I would use a RX 6400. Nvidia was high thinking the GTX 1630 can compete in this price range. The 6500xt is a terrible gpu. But the 1630 is even worse gpu of 2022!
wouldn't be the first time Nvidia released a bit of a turd. FX series has entered the chat
Especially FX 5200 and FX 5500.
And people were complaining about the RX 6400... Yeesh. :)
Makes that look like a 4090 lol
This is not a worthy successor to the 1030. I had a 1030, it rarely consumed over 20Ws. The 1630 consumes about the triple of that for delivering double preformance. That would be acceptable if the 1630 would cost almost the same as the 1030.
GTX 1630, GTX 1630, GTX 1630, THIS IS WHAT THIS REVIEW IS ABOUT FOR THE THOSE LIKE ME WHO DID NOT KNOW BEFORE THEY STARTED WATCHING THIS VIDEO. Here's a piece of advice dude, put the name of the graphics card you are reviewing into your title! 🙂
I'm thinking during this - "Probably should include Battlebits as a joke or something" ....it happened within the next 10 seconds. lol...
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To think about it even an APU is "better" than this thing
My Radeon Pulse RX580 8GB destroys that thing and it's like 6 years old
RX 580 cards are less than $100 for the 8GB model.
Mining cards without fans and some problems.
Vram almost dead.
It looks so cute i'd like to have one as a desk toy
Yeah great desktop feature haha
Is this the gtx 1630?
The biggest problem with this card is that the half-height 75W 1650 exists.
This is a great gpu.
Stops my papers from being blown away by my fan
I think even the iGPU in the ROG Ally beats this card
Oh for sure
Yeah, this thing often slower than 1050 ti
Why tf did the 1630 have a 6 pin connector when the 1650 didn’t AND had a low profile variant
i picked up an 8gb rx580 for £78 a few days ago, 1080 high setting shits all over this
Absolute deal. Still a solid card
I thought about it. But how long will they be supported for?
@@RandomGaminginHD i watched your most recent review on one and then seen this one in my local CEX, i was on a sapphire nitro 8gb rx570 wasn't really looking to upgrade but thought as i've got a 2nd gen r7 2700 having a spare gpu on hand isn't a bad call
@@Rapscallion2009 i bought it as a spare to keep my aging system going, they are still getting updates currently how long it'll continue is unknown though. it's supported in all current games i play and should continue to be able to play same games, obviously there will come a point where future games won't be supported but i imagine the hardware may become the limiting factor over the drivers
Quite comically, this card still is, in most cases, just as expensive as 1650 with like 40% less performance. What a weird artifact of the broken pandemic-era market that somehow never moved to an appropriate niche. If it was at least power efficient...
I have no idea why this card even exist.
1-its worse than 1650 by large margin
2-more expensive than rx 6400 and have much worse performance
3-almost all models have 8pins unlike the more powerful 1650 for some reason (not 100% sure)
I was so excited for this
Seems many gamers here are hating NVidia GTX 1630, AMD RX6400 and Intel ARC A380 just because they can't run games at larger resolutions at fullscreen and obviously on the highest settings! But actually the intention of the 1630 is exactly that - to be an entry-level gaming card, not a high-end one, like RTX 3090Ti / 3080 / 4090 / 4080. Actually some of higher-end GPUs are also suffering an overprizing as well.
Actually 1630 has some advantages: 1. It fully supports NVidia Shadow Play's game recording and has both h.264 and h.265 (HEVC) encoding, while the direct budget AMD competitors RX6400 and 6500XT doesn't even have any kind of encoding or gameplay recording at all; 2. GTX 1630's NVidia drivers are far superior and much more stable working on both desktop, video playback and running games, same applies for AMD RX 6400 as well, while on Intel ARC A380' side, driver support is… Ouch! It's drivers, even a bit improved now, are stills prone to be unstable and crashing randomly, games suddenly stops working and are crashing, some of them just aren't even working or launching at all on the Intel entry-level ARC GPU, and can even lead to a BSODs forcing to restart entire PC; 3. As author is noted, this card is better for putting into a old business PC, or in a workstation like Lenovo, Dell, Fujitsu, HP, etc. that has a PCI-E 3.0 instead of PCI-E 4.0 as on such PC the GTX 1630 that has x16 lines would not suffer from any performance loss, unlike its AMD competitor AMD RX 6400 that is PCI-E 4.0 and x4 lines only which would suffer noticeable loss of its performance, same applies for the Intel ARC A380, beside its still pretty problematic partially unstable drivers, it also would have a massive stutter / lagging if it is put into a similar old cheap and high-quality, but old business HP / Dell / Lenovo business PC or workstation as these cannot have enabled in any way the required by the ARC series' Intel ResizeBar; 4. 1630 consumes pretty much low power on Idle, multi-monitor and during playing videos, as Tech Power-up states that on their tests the power consumption by the GTX 1630 itself being only 4W, 11W and 6W respectively. For comparison, the ARC A380 has pretty high power draw at idle state and higher during video playback, respectively 17W and 19W.
I think GTX 1630 is still good for an entry-level and very-budget GPU. I think the author should test games on 1630, but also on Windowed Mode at lower resolutions, like HD+ 900p, HD Ready 768p or 720p, also to test the games again on FullHD 1080p but with AMD FSR Quality and Balanced settings enabled, as I'm assume that on the FSR's Performance and Ultra Performance settings the graphic might become looking pretty downscaled and bad, so I wouldn't recommend these anyway. I think the GTX 1630 has only one weakness compared to its strengths I mentioned above and that is the lack of support for NVidia DLSS that for a entry-level budget card would be a very welcome addition, but this is because it falls on GTX 16xx series, and DLSS itself is available only for the RTX 20xx or later series of NVidia GPUs.
buddy gtx 1050ti more cheap this one
@TheRealJohnHooper I know for the GTX 1650. The real issue is that, the majority of those nice PC cheap business PCs' are coming with their property, very high-quality and outputs an extremely stable wattage / amperage output without any fluctuations, but they're often with a smaller maximum wattage and here's the nasty thing - they're also not having a connector for additional power for an external GPU. I remember, in one past period - 2010-2017, there was both NVidia and AMD GPUs that along with their High-end and Mid-range products that was also releasing a budget and entry-level GPUs compatible with these old-school HP / Lenovo / Dell PCs and workstations, including a low-profile variant that nowadays are pretty much lacking. My first PC gaming was a Dell OptiPlex 745 with Pentium D 925 and AMD Radeon HD 5670 DDR5 128-bit with 512 MB VRAM that at that time was costing about 100-120 Bulgarian Leva that in your currency in United States is around USA $65-75. Then I got a Dell Precision 3400 that has a Core 2 Quad 9450 Quad Core and used an NVidia GT 730 64-bit, I do note this was the DDR5 variant because there's also variant of 730 with DDR3 as well, as GT 730 was costing around BGN 170 leva, which converted to your United States' currency is about USA $95.
However, since past the AMD RX4xx and RX5xx series and the NVidia GTX 16xx series, both companies doesn't seems to make much anymore a entry-level or a low-profile GPUs for business small-form factor (the most used abbreviature is being SFF) or any of those older PCs as average. When come to more recent GPUs, the only ones released as a low-profile compatible or can run without any additional power are being: NVidia Quadro T400 and T600 that are lacking ShadowPlay's recording as these being a professional GPUs mainly used for rendering CAD software as Maya or AutoCAD; GTX A2000 that support both NVidia's ShadowPlay recording and Video Encoding, this low-profile GPUs is known to be insane expensive for its performance, and is stills selling for over 600+ USD for its GTX 1650's performance and its price at same time is nearly doubled of that of the newly released RTX 4060 that 's going to to be costing only around USD $300-320 dollars maximum; lastly, AMD RX 6400 which is lacking video encoding and AMD Relive game capturing.
Unfortunately, seems almost all GPUs released at the last around 5 years are ones that're more power-hungry and only runs with an additional power-connector! For comparison back in previous times there's was a weaker GPU with narrower width-bus but with GDDR5 memory that would run on these older quality business PCs without any power connector, and to play games at 720p / 768p / 900p or 1080p at Medium, Medium-High or Low graphic Settings. Such very affordable GPUs are being mostly a NVidia ones - GT 710, 730, 1030 and 1050 and 1050Ti, and AMD RX550 and only recently - the RX 6400. Now the last NVidia GPU that can be put at older business PCs without relying to mandatory additional power connector is being GTX 1650 as you're said, but that's only for its original GDDR5 released variant, actually the GTX 1630 and the updated variant of GTX 1650 - Super, that, like the 1630, also having a GDDR6 memory, both of them are relying to using an additional power connector.
This might be the reason why so much the all videos about using such older business PCs for gaming or for entry-level gaming are telling only either AMD RX 6400 or a GPUs from both NVidia and AMD that are least 3-4 years old already! On the last three NVidia's RTX generations - 20xx, 30xx and 40xx, there's still absolutely nothing (NOT even a single GPU present!) in the budget and entry-level segment, all of the released GPUs so far are falling into the High-end and Mid-Range categories ONLY.
Can you do the same video for Rx6500xt
The existence of cheap, sub $120 8GB RX580's really makes this card look even worse.
My 1650 looks the exact same I thought you was going to diss my gpu