GALAX GeForce GTX 1630 EX (1-Click OC)
vs
GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 980 WATERFORCE GAMING


GPU comparison with benchmarks

The GALAX GeForce GTX 1630 EX (1-Click OC) has 512 shader units and these clock a maximum of 1.82 GHz which results in an FP32 computing power of 1.86 TFLOPS.

The GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 980 WATERFORCE GAMING has 2048 shader units and these clock at a maximum of 1.35 GHz and achieve an FP32 computing power of 5.55 TFLOPS.

GPU

The GALAX GeForce GTX 1630 EX (1-Click OC) is equipped with a graphics chip of the Turing architecture, which has 8 streaming multiprocessors.

The graphics card GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 980 WATERFORCE GAMING is based on the Maxwell 2.0 architecture and is equipped with 16 execution units.
GALAX GeForce GTX 1630 EX (1-Click OC) GPU GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 980 WATERFORCE GAMING
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1630 Based on NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980
TU117-150 GPU Chip GM204-400-A1
Turing Architecture Maxwell 2.0
8 Streaming Multiprocessors 16
512 Shader 2048
16 Render Output Units 64
32 Texture Units 128
0 Raytracing Cores 0

Memory

The GALAX GeForce GTX 1630 EX (1-Click OC) is equipped with a 4 GB large GDDR6 graphics memory, which is equipped with 1.500 GHz clocks.

The GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 980 WATERFORCE GAMING has a 4 GB large GDDR5 graphics memory and the memory clock is 1.753GHz.

4 GB Memory Size 4 GB
GDDR6 Memory Type GDDR5
1.500 GHz Memory Clock 1.753 GHz
12.0 Gbps Memory Speed 7.0 Gbps
96 GB/s Memory bandwidth 224 GB/s
64 bit Memory Interface 256 bit

Clock Speeds

The GALAX GeForce GTX 1630 EX (1-Click OC) has a turbo clock of 1.815 GHz. The turbo frequency of the GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 980 WATERFORCE GAMING is 1.354 GHz.

1.740 GHz Base Clock 1.253 GHz
1.815 GHz Boost Clock 1.354 GHz
Avg (Game) Clock 1.33 GHz
Yes Overclocking Yes

Thermal Design

The GALAX GeForce GTX 1630 EX (1-Click OC) has connectors through which it is supplied with power. The manufacturer specifies the maximum operating temperature of the graphics card as 90 °C.

The GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 980 WATERFORCE GAMING is equipped with a 2 x 8-Pin PCIe power connector that supplies it with power. The maximum operating temperature of the card is 98 °C.

75 W TDP 165 W
-- TDP (up) --
90 °C Tjunction max 98 °C
PCIe-Power 2 x 8-Pin

Cooler & Fans

The graphics processor and graphics memory of the GALAX GeForce GTX 1630 EX (1-Click OC) are cooled with a Air cooling.

The GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 980 WATERFORCE GAMING is cooled by a AIO water cooling.

Axial Fan-Type Axial (Radiator)
2 x 80 mm Fan 1 1 x 120 mm
-- Fan 2 --
Air cooling Cooler-Type AIO water cooling
dB Noise (Idle) 0 dB
-- Noise (Load) --

Connectivity

The GALAX GeForce GTX 1630 EX (1-Click OC) supports the downward compatible copy protection HDCP in version 2.3.

The GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 980 WATERFORCE GAMING supports HDCP in version 2.2 and all previous versions.

3 Max. Displays 4
2.3 HDCP-Version 2.2
1x HDMI v2.0b HDMI Ports 1x HDMI v2.0
1x DP v1.4a DP Ports 3x DP v1.2
1 DVI Ports 2
-- VGA Ports --
-- USB-C Ports --

Featureset

The GALAX GeForce GTX 1630 EX (1-Click OC) supports the DirectX standard from Microsoft in version 12_1.

The GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 980 WATERFORCE GAMING supports Microsoft's DirectX version 12_1.

7680x4320 Max. resolution 4096x2160
12_1 DirectX 12_1
No Raytracing No
Yes DLSS / FSR No
No LED lighting LED No LED lighting

Supported Video Codecs

This area lists which video codecs can be decoded or encoded by the graphics cards in hardware. As a result, the power consumption can be reduced due to a lower processor load.

Decode / Encode h264 Decode / Encode
Decode / Encode h265 / HEVC No
No AV1 No
Decode VP8 Decode
Decode VP9 No

Dimensions

The GALAX GeForce GTX 1630 EX (1-Click OC) is 39 mm wide and therefore needs the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the case.

The width of the GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 980 WATERFORCE GAMING is 39 mm and thus requires the space of 2 PCIe-Slots in the PC case.

196 mm Length 272 mm
126 mm Height 113 mm
39 mm Width 37 mm
2 PCIe-Slots Width (Slots) 2 PCIe-Slots
-- Weight --
PCIe 3.0 x 8 GPU Interface PCIe 3 x 16

Additional data

Manufactured using the 12 nanometer process, GALAX GeForce GTX 1630 EX (1-Click OC) was released in Q2/2022.

The GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 980 WATERFORCE GAMING published in Q3/2015 is manufactured with a structure width of 28 nanometers.

63NQL4HP66EX Part-no GV-N980WAOC-4GD
Q2/2022 Release date Q3/2015
169 $ (Reference) Launch Price 599 $
12 nm Structure size 28 nm
data sheet Documents data sheet

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Benchmark results

3DMark Benchmark (DirectX, Raytracing)

3DMark is a benchmark program that determines the performance of certain components of a computer and then reports the performance as a numerical value.

Time Spy Extreme Graphics score

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL, Vulkan, Metal)

Geekbench 6 is a cross-platform benchmark for main processors, which also carries out 3 different graphics benchmarks and outputs them in the form of a numerical value.

Geekbench 6 - OpenCL

Geekbench 6 - Vulkan

FP32 Performance (Single-precision TFLOPS)

The theoretical computing power of the graphics card with single precision (32 bit) in TFLOPS indicates how many trillion FP32 floating point operations the graphics card (GPU) can perform per second.

FP32 (TFLOPS)

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