Good info about video cards by using my Geforce GT 630

[Ol Smoke]

In talking with other F|A members on TS yesterday  I thought I would post the review about my old card.

My card is the GeForce GT 630 with 2mb of memory.  I bought this card to play COD4 and that is about it.

The other games I play are all about 5 years old, so I don't need much.  I get about 90 to 100 FPS when

playing COD4 but I have it set to limit FPS to 125.  I don't see any improvement in gameplay over that.

In fact, I had it set to 80fps max for a long time.  Now the one thing I learned is that when you jump, at those

frame rates, you don't jump very high.  So if you are a high jumper, you will need way more than this card.

But it does talk about how certain things on the card work and not work.

 

Here is the review.

 

Yesterday, Nvidia quietly released three new middle-class GPUs: GeForce GT 630, GeForce GT 640 and GeForce GT 645. Middle-class GPUs are meant for casual or modest gamers that expect to play current games but will turn down settings on the most demanding games.

These three card groups fall in to that category. Lets see if Nvidia did a good job or if we are just faced with renamed old models...

 

First up is the GeForce GT 630. 

1 - GeForce GT 630

Architecture: Kepler GK107

CUDA Cores: 388

Graphics Clock: 875MHz

Memory Clock: 891MHz

Memory: 1GB or 2GB

Memory Interface: DDR3

Memory Interface Width: 128 Bits

Die Size: 28nm

Shader: 5.0

OpenGL: 4.2

DirectX: 11

Good: New architecture means – less power consumption, less heating and better performance than its predecessor, GeForce GT 530.

Bad: A 128 bit memory bus will not suffice for large amounts of video memory. It will greatly reduce its performance by becoming a bottleneck for both the 1GB and 2GB versions.

Worse: 2GB will probably be a lot more expensive and it seems like little more than a gimmick as GeForce GT 630 does not seem structured to use the full 2GB of memory and the memory width is not large enough to allow that much data to pass through.

Summary: Despite its bottleneck, GeForce GT 630 ends up being a decent middle-class GPU that will probably be able to play most modern demanding games at high settings but will most likely require some reduced settings for very demanding games, like Metro 2033 and the recently announced Max Payne 3.

[Ol Smoke]

Now here is a card being sold today that ranks very high.  Notice that it still has a Memory bus of 128 bits and 2GB of memory.

 

MSI Computer Corp. NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750 Ti Gaming OC 2GB GDDR5 VGA/DVI/HDMI PCI-Express Video Card N750TI TF 2GD5/OC

by MSI Computer Corp.

 

 

 

 

Price: $164.99 & FREE Shipping. Details Post-purchase rebate: $15.00 Get rebate forms Price after rebate: $149.99 Rebate forms for recent purchases

 

In stock on January 15, 2015.
Order it now.

Ships from and sold by Amazon.com. Gift-wrap available.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

• Chipset: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750 Ti
• Core Clock: 1085 MHz (OC Mode); 1059 MHz (Gaming Mode); 1020 MHz (Silent Mode)
• Video Memory: 2GB GDDR5, Memory Interface: 128-bit
• Bus: PCI-Express 3.0 x16
• Max. Resolution: 2560 x 1600
• Connectors: VGA, DVI-D Dual Link, HDMI

[Vanaraud]

750 Ti is with good efficiency. Memory bus doesn´t mean anything in new architectures. Actually AMD wiht r9 285 and nVidia with Maxwell2 cut the memory bus and still perform as well or even better. New packing technologies developed inside GPU to reduce data size put through between GPU and VRAM. Also memoroy speed is increased: r9 290 GDDR5 does 5200Mhz, GTX 970 7000 and even more.

So I would only concentrate on reviews and check out how much FPS certain card can get in games, tehcnical numbers are irrelevant.

[Elf]

I bought a GTX 750 ti  it's a great card...getting good FPS with it.

[Ol Smoke]

See what happens when you get out of the PC business for 10 years.  You get left behind. Thanks Vanaraud for your input.

I need to read more, but then....maybe not.