Thursday, April 27th 2017
NVIDIA's Pascal GP108-300 GPU Pictured, Benchmarked - Powers Upcoming GT 1030
We've already covered how NVIDIA is looking to take a slice of the IGP-replacement discrete GPU market after AMD brought it back to life with the RX 550 (of which you can see some examples here). Considering how the last NVIDIA entry into this market was the GT 730, it's safe to say a refresh is past due.
The most recent information points towards a chip sporting 512 CUDA cores and a 30W TDP - absent of any auxiliary power connectors. Pricing should be close to the RX 550's, though the performance difference between both parts is still up in the air - though an average 12 FPS in Ashes of the Singularity on 1080p is nothing to write home about, even if that is expectable given the GPU's price/performance bracket. The GT 1030 is currently expected to make landing on the second week of May.
Sources:
Expreview, Videocardz
The most recent information points towards a chip sporting 512 CUDA cores and a 30W TDP - absent of any auxiliary power connectors. Pricing should be close to the RX 550's, though the performance difference between both parts is still up in the air - though an average 12 FPS in Ashes of the Singularity on 1080p is nothing to write home about, even if that is expectable given the GPU's price/performance bracket. The GT 1030 is currently expected to make landing on the second week of May.
29 Comments on NVIDIA's Pascal GP108-300 GPU Pictured, Benchmarked - Powers Upcoming GT 1030
If it does perform around a RX 550 then it will be fine for games like Dota 2 and CS:GO and will be a good bit faster than integrated graphics. They need to get the price right though.
If the GT 1030 is comparable to a RX 550 then theses benches are relevant
www.pcworld.com/article/3190695/components-graphics/amd-radeon-rx-550-review-a-thrilling-budget-graphics-card-with-a-perplexing-price.html?page=2
Come on man, think a little.
@blibba
I honestly don't understand your rant. If you only play WoW and LoL, this means you'd just get WAY more frames and better image quality? How is that bad? 60fps at low for any game could be a norm for prices we have now for this useless garbage. But since everyone seems to be fine with it (like you), you have this stuff that hardly displays desktop. And you still pay quite a lot for it... Yeah, think a little...
No IGP crap on the chip.Erm, are you sure about that is the reason?
So if a C++ dev grabs 1800x, what graphic card should he buy?
On the other hand, all I need to know about these cards is that they exist and a price range. Performance, VRAM and other things I don't care about.
But I've purchased cards of this ilk several times in the past, when I've been fixing something for a relative and needed to buy from a physical store or whatever, or when they fall to £20 on Amazon and the PSU isn't up to scratch for something older but better.
Generally though, if this is the cheapest thing, and the performance is sufficient, then the performance is sufficient - not everyone can afford to spend more for unnecessary performance. If these aren't the cheapest thing, that's just market failure imo, and not the fault of the card itself.
And my GTX950 is powerful enough to do most of my work on 4K screen and play most of my games in steam library from 1080p to 1440p, med to high settings.
You say "work, WoW, LoL", I say "Alien Isolation in 2k"!
It's very handy in numerous situations.
I am looking towards learning the performance vs Intel IGP and price.
While I love to be able to build a desktop for work and not having to buy a video card, I'd still like to have the option of foregoing the IGP for my home gaming desktop. And yes, I know Ryzen gives me that option.
"but" you say, "my experience with the intel drivers are quite pleasant, they run all my games at reasonable settings and i can watch hardware accelerated HD videos without the CPU burning through the chassis of my laptop"
And sure, for everyday usage they do the job. But, for example at my job i sometimes program PLCs, and the intel drivers DOES not play nice with the programing tool, making it crash on some occasions. for those scenarios having an option is important.
I can wait until Intel brings out their CPU with on die APU for comparison with AMD's offerings.