Thursday, April 20th 2017

NVIDIA Readies the GeForce GT 1030 to Compete with Radeon RX 550
With the Tuesday (18/04) launch of the Radeon RX 550 at US $79, the market for IGP-replacement discrete GPUs sprung back to life. NVIDIA is preparing to address the market with the new GeForce GT 1030 graphics card, based on its "Pascal" architecture. The SKU will be based on the new 14 nm "GP108" silicon, and could feature up to 512 CUDA cores, and up to 2 GB of GDDR5 memory across a 128-bit wide interface.
With tiny board and electrical footprints, one can expect the chip to rely on the PCI-Express slot entirely for its power, and come in low-profile and fan-less designs. It could feature an up-to-date I/O, including HDMI 2.0b and DisplayPort 1.4, which its predecessor, the GT 730 lacks. The company could formally announce the GT 1030 around mid-May, 2017.
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With tiny board and electrical footprints, one can expect the chip to rely on the PCI-Express slot entirely for its power, and come in low-profile and fan-less designs. It could feature an up-to-date I/O, including HDMI 2.0b and DisplayPort 1.4, which its predecessor, the GT 730 lacks. The company could formally announce the GT 1030 around mid-May, 2017.
37 Comments on NVIDIA Readies the GeForce GT 1030 to Compete with Radeon RX 550
One interesting question is there nvenc on gp108, gm108 lacked nvenc hw. Thus video encoding was not possible on it.
It is nice to see that these lower end cards are actually becoming relevant, unlike the fermi and kepler ones.
For those thinking of other even more cut cards, I really doubt they will make any... $79 is already really low down the price bracket and honestly anyone with a brain will shave 20 bucks off their budget elsewhere to get a better card if they have ~50-60 to spend on a GPU. (Or just save up for like one month lul)
The only place I would expect to see those are in OEM PCs.
GPUs are way more efficient now (and so are other PC parts). If a 30W card is cooled by a fan, it means it has a poor, small heatsink - simply because fans are way cheaper. Relevant in what?
I think Fermi and Kepler cards were very relevant as small, low-power solutions. And they offered a decent boost compared to an average IGP of the period.
If AMD really wants to make so many GPU variants below the RX460/560, they'll be hardly more useful than Intel's IGP and very likely slower than next AMD APU... Sorry, but the "save up for like one month" looks like you're talking about allowance. :d
People have particular budget to spend on a PC - it's not about saving up. And they might not be interested in a better card, anyway.
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