New Vs Used: $160 GPU Shootout

today if you want to buy a new graphics card for  about 210 Canadian Lira something like this thing   is one of only a couple options which is pretty  brutal so that's why in today's video I'm going   to compare it to a used graphics card you can  reliably buy for about the same amount of money [Music] the graphics card that I bought new for  about 160 ish US dollars is this GTX   1630 a graphics card which is basically  just a GTX 1650 with its limbs cut off   let that sink in for a second a GTX 1650  with its limbs cut off I don't know about   you but that doesn't bode very well for  the budget graphics card space in 2023 but let's have a closer look at it foreign [Music] lead poisoning is conceptually problematic is  because back when the 1650 was first launched   around the same time humans first settled in  the Indus River Valley people were rioting   in the streets rightfully so over the price the  performance of that thing and those ages ago and   it was a better version of this card for the same  amount this thing cost me now I I don't know I'm   really hoping the used Market saves the day here  but I I guess we'll find that out soon enough but   with that let's drop this very promising graphics  card in the system and see how it performs oh yeah that graphics card looks right  at home in the H9 so tiny [Music]   now this is always the case we're starting  off with GTA 5 at 1080p but I've set all of   the rest of the settings to normal which is  like low for GTA 5 because you know budget   graphics gone so let's see how it handles it  oh would you look at that we have some high   refresh rate gaming Happening Here I am actually  unironically surprised that we're getting about   120 frames per second uh this game is older than  I am at this point so it would be pretty brutal   if at normal settings we got worse frame rate than  this too bad I have seen GTA 5 run a hell of a lot   worse than this but I guess that doesn't mean  much considering what I do on this channel but   still I think it's doing so well in fact that  we can take the settings up a notch so I set   everything to high in GTA 5 which I guess kind  of counts as medium I don't know it's weird ah   yes you see this is more along the lines of the  kind of performance I was expecting from the GPU   although I was expecting it at normal settings  so I guess it's exceeded my very very very low   expectation so far but again this is with no point  of reference right so this result doesn't really   mean anything but we'll provide context in a  bit but before that let's try some more games CS go just isn't launching I've tried several  times it pretends to be launching but when I do   control alt delete not responding that's the  the extent to which we can play CS go today so with Battlefield 5 at 1080p low settings  we are getting a playable result out of this   graphics card which again was better than I was  expecting my bias going into this meant that I   thought this graphics card was going to be like  gaming using the flight computer on an Apollo 11   Rocket but it's not the case even a more demanding  game like Battlefield 5 is playable at 1080p again   there's no context here in terms of other gpus  performance but still if you're trapped on some   desert hell Island and all you have access to is a  GTX 1630 you can still kind of play games with it   and you wouldn't even have to Pedal that hard to  power it but let's try something even more demonic   now with cyberpunk at 1080p we've drifted  a reasonable amount from that 60 frame   per second Baseline that we're looking for  this is with everything at low settings and   yeah it this is not great which really does  not bode well for other modern games coming   out especially in the port Bend but now that we  have a reasonable idea of how the 1630 performs   let's see how it holds up to context now  the used graphics card for today's Death   Match Arena of death is this RX 6600 a graphics  card that if you shop around you can find used   for about 200 Canadian and considering the specs  difference it seems like the 1630 is about to be   curb stormed here but let's not assume let's  drop it in the system and see what happens [Music] oh no context is not very kind to the  new GTX 1630 is it a 1080p High settings we are   very comfortably in the starter Zone with the  RX 6600 I actually think the one percent lows   for The Benchmark are going to be pretty bad  because the game is running too well on the 6600   oh yes there we go there was some some of the  good stuff right there maybe a different game   will be more favorable to the 16th City maybe  well at least CS go still doesn't work so I I   guess that's good whoa at 1080p low the RX 6600  is going hard this is not faring better for the   1630 at all wow that's crazy we occasionally hit  over 300 frames per second compared to 60. this   wow I'm trying to think of a way to wisecrack  here but there's no more brutal put down than   that like I don't know so with 1080p High we're  still almost getting 200 frames per second uh   this is a relatively Barren map uh but I'll have  some standardized bench benchmarks showing in a   second so don't worry your pretty little heads  about that oh cyberpunk is doing a lot better   we were struggling in the 20s before whereas now  at the same settings we're getting over a hundred   frames per second let's see what happens when we  Crank It Up to medium with medium settings we're   getting 80-ish frames per second in cyberpunk oh  no way I just stole like a fancy car look at that   yay I finally replaced my tiny little crap box of  a car this one barely feels faster than the other   one though that it kind of drives as terribly  oh with that let's have a look at the benchmarks [Music] foreign [Music]   so for a similar price the used card's foot is  so far up the 1630s ass that it's never getting   its shoe back now you may be thinking David  surely there are better new card options at   this price point well you can technically  buy a 1650 for the same amount which also   humiliates the 1630 but stock at this price  point is often not available the RX 6400 is   also an option but these cards are just  obscenely priced for what they are don't   get me wrong they have their use but this  pricing is ridiculous so at the end of the   day the moral of the story is buy used and  if you can't do that you just have to cry   in a shower I don't know what else to tell you  anyway with that until the next video bye-bye thank you [Music]

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Length: 8min 43sec (523 seconds)

Published: Wed Apr 19 2023