Gainward GeForce GTX 1630 Ghost for $150
Video card manufacturer Palit Group (owner of the Gainward brand) has introduced a very interesting graphics accelerator to the market. Its peculiarity is in a very low price, as for an entry-level gaming device. The Gainward GeForce GTX 1630 Ghost graphics card costs just $150. You could pass by. But it's Gainward! Any player who has had a product of this brand at least once in their life will say with confidence that this is a real THING.
The trick of the Gainward brand is in the right approach to the cooling system. Even during overclocking, the memory modules and the graphics core do not burn. The video card becomes morally obsolete, but it always remains working. Yes, in performance tests, Gainward never made it to the top. But reliability, durability and resistance to failure are in the first places.
Gainward GeForce GTX 1630 Ghost Specifications
| Technical process | 12 nm, Turing architecture (TU117) |
| Number of CUDA cores | 512 |
| Number of operating units (ROP) | 16 |
| Core clock (Normal and Boost mode) | 1740 / 1785 MHz |
| Video memory capacity | 4 GB |
| Memory frequency | 1500 MHz |
| Tire | PCI-Express 3.0 x16, GDDR6, 64 bit |
| Food | 6-pin PCIe, consumption 75W |
| Video outputs | 2x DisplayPort 1.4, 1xHDMI 2.0b |
| SLI support | No |
| Ray tracing support | No |
| Image output in 4K | Yes |
| Price | $150 |
The closest competitors for the Gainward GeForce GTX 1630 Ghost graphics card are AMD Radeon RX 6400 and Intel Arc A380. Which is to be expected. In the NVIDIA lineup, there was a vacuum between the GT1030 and GT1650 that just needed to be filled. And the Gainward product came in handy.
Players will certainly offer an alternative in the form of AMD RX570 from the secondary market. Which can be bought in the same price range. But this is not the best choice, since the RX cards have been in use for more than 5 years. Plus, they could work on mining farms. It is better to buy a new video card, and not a pig in a poke.
The weak point of the Gainward video card is the lack of support for new game chips advertised by nVidia. The chip simply will not pull all the visual effects. Plus, a bug was noticed in the form of a limitation on memory overclocking. On the other hand, the accelerator is very quiet and does not consume much electricity under load.