MSI GT 630 1GB DDR3 128-Bits Video Graphics Card

The MSI GT 630 1GB DDR3 128-Bits Graphics Processor is a graphics card based on NVIDIA’s Fermi architecture. This GPU, identified by the variant GF108-400-A1, was produced by TSMC using a 40 nm process. It contains 585 million transistors with a density of 5.0M / mm² and a die size of 116 mm². The chip package is BGA-973.

Graphics Card Overview

• Generation: Part of the GeForce 600 series, it follows the GeForce 500 and precedes the GeForce 700 series.
• Production Status: End-of-life.

Bus Interface

The card utilizes a PCIe 2.0 x16 interface, providing adequate bandwidth for its performance level.

Clock Speeds

• GPU Clock: 810 MHz
• Shader Clock: 1620 MHz
• Memory Clock: Operates at 900 MHz, with an overclocked variant running at 1000 MHz (+11%), yielding effective rates of 1800 Mbps and 2 Gbps, respectively.

Memory

• Memory Size: 1024 MB
• Memory Type: DDR3
• Memory Bus: 128-bit
• Memory Bandwidth: 28.80 GB/s, with the overclocked version achieving 32.00 GB/s.

Render Configuration

• Shading Units (CUDA Cores): 96
• Texture Mapping Units (TMUs): 16
• Render Output Units (ROPs): 4
• Streaming Multiprocessors (SMs): 2
• Cache: 64 KB L1 cache per SM and 256 KB L2 cache.

Theoretical Performance

• Pixel Rate: 3.240 GPixel/s
• Texture Rate: 12.96 GTexel/s
• FP32 (float) Performance: 311.0 GFLOPS
• FP64 (double) Performance: 25.92 GFLOPS (1:12 ratio).

Board Design

• Slot Width: Single-slot design
• Length: Available in two lengths, 145 mm (5.7 inches) and 158 mm (6.2 inches).
• Thermal Design Power (TDP): 65 W
• Suggested PSU: 250 W
• Outputs: 1x DVI, 1x HDMI 1.3a, 1x VGA
• Power Connectors: None required.

Graphics Features

• DirectX: 12 (Feature Level 11_0)
• OpenGL: 4.6
• OpenCL: 1.1
• Vulkan: Not supported
• CUDA: 2.1
• Shader Model: 5.1

Summary

The MSI GT 630 1GB DDR3 128-Bits Graphics Processor is a mid-range GPU from the GeForce 600 series, ideal for basic gaming and multimedia tasks. Its Fermi architecture and various output options make it suitable for a range of applications, despite its limited memory bandwidth and processing power compared to modern standards.