Sunday, April 30th 2017
KFA2 GeForce GT 1030 EXOC White Pictured, Detailed
AIB partner for NVIDIA KFA2 is renowned for the design (often polarizing) of its graphics cards, and the company seems to carry white quite close to its heart (something I don't have a problem with, actually.) Now, the company has seemingly confirmed incoming retail availability of NVIDIA's leaked GT 1030 graphics cards, with an EXOC edition of the card in question.
The EXOC white edition by KFA2 is factory overclocked out of the box, and the packaging confirms its a 2GB GDDR5 model with 64-bit memory bus. According to the source, El Chapuzas Informatico, this card is equipped with a 16nm GP108 GPU with 384 CUDA cores (not the 512 we previously reported.) This makes sense, however, as this means NVIDIA can easily carve a GT 1040 SKU from the supposed 512 CUDA-cores base design of the GP108 chip. The base clock for the KFA2 GT 1030 EXOC is 1252 MHz, with a 1506 MHz boost clock. This card is expected to go on sale for around 80€ ($87 direct conversion, but more likely a $69 price-tag.)
Sources:
El Chapuzas Informatico, Videocardz
The EXOC white edition by KFA2 is factory overclocked out of the box, and the packaging confirms its a 2GB GDDR5 model with 64-bit memory bus. According to the source, El Chapuzas Informatico, this card is equipped with a 16nm GP108 GPU with 384 CUDA cores (not the 512 we previously reported.) This makes sense, however, as this means NVIDIA can easily carve a GT 1040 SKU from the supposed 512 CUDA-cores base design of the GP108 chip. The base clock for the KFA2 GT 1030 EXOC is 1252 MHz, with a 1506 MHz boost clock. This card is expected to go on sale for around 80€ ($87 direct conversion, but more likely a $69 price-tag.)
19 Comments on KFA2 GeForce GT 1030 EXOC White Pictured, Detailed
I wouldn't bet on that. Nvidia always charges more, so it doesn't look like the cheap option. Considering that GT 1030 will be more power efficient and faster than RX 550, I don't see a reason for Nvidia to sell it cheap. But, it would be nice if it does come at so low price. $79 is the best case scenario in my opinion.
I bypassed most text of the article "knowing" that GT 1030 will have a 128bit data bus and 512 CUDA cores. With 64bit bus and only 384 CUDA cores it could be as cheap as $69. A nice replacement for that mess that GT 730 is(mess=multiple and different models).
It have similar amount of fp32 TFlops as RX 550 have(which is not fast card either), so should be more performant by knowing nvidia's better FPS/TFlops. But that low memory bus will even the odds between the two.
Brain fart. Sorry, dear readers...
It has 30% of the cores of the 1060 and 33% of the bus.
It has 20% of the cores of the 1070 and 25% of the bus.
It has 15% of the cores of the 1080 and 25% of the bus.
Do you still think a 64bit memory bus is a problem?
GTX 1030= .85
RX 550= 1.00
GTX 1040= 1.10
RX 560= 1.3
GTX 1050=1.5
GTX 1050 Ti= 1.7
My last 64 bit card was an S3 Virge GX :)))) That was exactly 20 years ago :) :) :) :)
64bit is fine for so low end cards as long as they have GDDR5 memory. The problem is with cxards using DDR3 memory. Especially Nvidia puts no restrictions on the memory the manufacturer will use in those low cost cards. My Gigabyte GT 620 came with 600MHz DDR3 instead of the 900MHz described on Nvidia's site. Another model I have seen when i bought the GT620, I think it was a Palit, had 533MHz DDR3 memory. We are talking about single digit bandwidth here.
In case you ask why I bought it. I bought 5 and gave to friends too. When a shop puts a price tag of 10 euros instead of the typical 30, you don't ask about the memory speed.
Some arbitrary synthetic benchmark is quite pointless, I rather look at how cards fare on some game reviews.