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Whether it is pressure from AMD, or just some revenue-mining tactic, it seems that Nvidia will indeed release a GT 1030 graphics card, the cheapest of the cheap in the Pascal family.
Chinese website Expreview has grabbed some pics that reveal Nvidia has indeed developed a GP108 iteration of its Pascal microarchitecture, aimed at the sub-$100 segment, a segment where AMD, just last week, announced its own product offers in the form of the Radeon RX 550 graphics card. The card is the GT 1030, and there are some interesting details on the matter.
The image leaks show a GP108-300-A1 die shot, a fairly tiny core which is reported to have just 132mm2, built on TSMC's 14nm process, with 32 TMUs and 16 ROPs, but an anemic 64-bit memory bus connected to 2GB or 4GB GDDR5. The card is further reported to draw just 30W from the PCIe bus, which means it will be devoid of any power connectors. It is also reported to be a strictly digital video card, with no analogue (VGA) output.
Performance on these cards will be nothing to phone home about, of course, and should grant you reasonable casual gaming experiences, on par with eSports titles.
As we mentioned above, the GT 1030 will address the sub-$100 segment which is currently populated by the recently released Radeon RX 550. Expreview says that May 17th is the launch date for the GT 1030.
KitGuru Says: Nvidia will leave no market segment unturned to face off with AMD. Going into this market, where margins are tiny and success is measured by your competitor's loss, is clearly a tactical move on Nvidia's side to match, or undercut, AMD's offers.
We need this video card to be called GT 1040. If the clocks to be above 1500Mhz this card will be within 3 quarters of the performance of a GTX 1050. Then Nvidia can ethier nerf the card and make a 1030 or completely build a new card under pascal architecture with the same core count as a GT 745.
Im really exited for the laptop market. We will probably see lots of ultrabooks replacing the aging GT940M for a card twice as fast and with a lower TDP. On battery gaming will come to life. (I hope Samsung’s Notebook 9 15″ gets an update)
this market still exist? APUs really have eliminated the need for those cards.
Nope, APUs are still limited by ram performance. AMD A10 APUs with R7 graphics are not even close what this card should offer. On the other side, Intel APUs with Iris Pro Graphics and 128mb eDRAM are very expensive and not available for standard desktops (and weaker still).
People who want a Ryzen CPU which has no integrated graphics, or simply need a video card for cuda acceleration/video rendering will be satisfied by a graphics card that barely draws 30 watts at full load.
hm yeah forgot ryzen to be honest, even my phenom doesn’t have integrated gpu.
But does a card that low end can provide enough cuda performance to use this and not the CPU? Or software can use both?
In my usage I have completely turned off GPU acceleration in adobe illustrator because it perform worst than just using the CPU alone (then again, adobe is not delivering really stellar software…)
I’m sure there is a fair amount of demand for a single slot low profile card that can do 4K@60Hz at a premium. I’ve noticed the number of GTs thinning out at my local Fry’s.
Low end? I’m running a gt750 and that provides ultra realistic graphics but draws power like a thirst hog. This out performs it many times over thank you very much. On board gpu’s suck. All ram is shared and they are resource hogs. A separate gpu is the way to go. Anyone saying on board is better dosent know much about computers. This on boards are for youtube and netflix.
lol that attitude…
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