Nvidia quietly launches the GeForce GT 1030, a Radeon RX 550 rival with a modest price - hughestrandaste

Surprise! Nvidia precise quietly announced an low-priced new graphics card late Tuesday for e-sports and HTPC enthusiasts, dubbed the GeForce GT 1030.

The new GeForce card notably lacks the "X" in GTX, going as an alternative with the more mundane GT—a name we haven't seen since the 700 series. That's because the new GT 1030, patc still using the Pascal architecture, is a low-power card purpose well-stacked to fight inactive the Radeon RX 550 introduced in April.

It's nigh time that Nvidia and AMD returned to the depression-finish of the budget play spectrum aft mostly ignoring this segment for a days. As the RX 550 is to the RX 560, then the GT 1030 is (almost) to the GTX 1050. Instead of the 1050's 640 CUDA cores, the GT 1030 has 384—a trifle to a higher degree half—the memory interface width is 64-bit along the GT 1030 instead of 128 on the 1050.

The GeForce GT 1030 also packs 2GB of of vRAM, a boost clock of 1468MHz, and a maximum resolution of 7680-past-4320 at 60Hz. The reference build calls for one DisplayPort 1.4, HDMI 2.0b with HDCP 2.2, and one Dual-link DVI. It's also a plural-slot card, only card makers are already announcing abject-visibility, single-one-armed bandit options, such as these EVGA, Gigabyte, and Zotac models. Nvidia recommends a 300W system power supply for use with the GT 1030.

The card seems ideal for e-sports gambling, or replacing integrated graphics in home theatre PCs or productivity machines, especially given its multi-monitor support. Eastern Samoa IT's not a GTX card, it lacks support for premium GeForce features like G-Sync, Ansel, and GameStream, though it does play nice with the GeForce Experience app.

The impact on you at home: We haven't had a chance to review this particular yet, simply we're mentation it should outpunch the Radeon RX 550. That's based connected specs lone, withal, so don't take that to the bank until reviewers put the bill of fare through its paces. As for pricing, information technology remains rivalrous with the RX 550 at an $80 MSRP, though most GT 1030 cards available right on now from Newegg are priced at $70 to $75.

Still, if you're looking at the GT 1030 for gaming, consider your options. The GeForce TX 1050 is priced around $110 right now, and if you're involved in AMD you can gravel the Radeon RX 560 for $100. Some of those cards are far more capable than the GT 1030 for a relatively teensy bump in price. Still, if all you're interested in is some extra oomph for eSports surgery watching 4K videos, past the GT 1030 should work fine.

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Ian is an independent author based in Israel who has ne'er met a tech subject he didn't like. Helium primarily covers Windows, Microcomputer and gaming hardware, video and music streaming services, friendly networks, and browsers. When he's not covering the news he's functional on how-to tips for PC users, or tuning his eGPU setup.