Nvidia GeForce GT 1030 Graphics Cards: Price List

The least powerful entry into Nvidia's GeForce 10-series is the GT 1030, which uses the GP108 die. Nvidia created GT 1030 to be highly energy efficient, with a max TDP of 30W. Nvidia equipped the GT 1030 with a narrow 64-bit memory interface and just 2GB of GDDR5 to kep the core's three SMs fed. Due to the reduced resource count, the GT 1030 is best suited as a replacement for slower integrated graphics, but it can be used for low-end gaming.

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Nvidia GeForce 10-series "Pascal" GPUs

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GPU	Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080 Ti	Nvidia GeForce GTX 1080	Nvidia GeForce GTX 1070	Nvidia GeForce GTX 1060	Nvidia GeForce GTX 1050 Ti	Nvidia GeForce GTX 1050	Nvidia GeForce GT 1030
Core	GP102	GP104	GP104	GP106	GP107	GP107	GP108
SMs	28	20	15	10	6	5	3
Shader Units	3584	2560	1920	1280 (6GB) / 1152 (3GB)	768	640	384
Texture Units	224	160	120	80	48	40	24
ROPs	88	64	64	48	32	32	16
Transistor Count	12 Billion	7.2 Billion	7.2 Billion	4.4 Billion	3.3 Billion	3.3 Billion	1.02 Billion
Base Clock / Boost Clock	1480MHz / 1582MHz	1607MHz / 1733MHz	1506MHz / 1683MHz	1506MHz / 1708MHz	1290MHz / 1392MHz	1354MHz / 1455MHz	1227MHz / 1468MHz
Memory	Up To 11GB GDDR5X @ 11Gbps, 352-Bit	Up To 8GB GDDR5X @ 10Gbps, 256-Bit	Up To 8GB GDDR5 @ 8Gbps, 256-Bit	Up To 6GB GDDR5 @ 8Gbps, 192-Bit	Up To 4GB GDDR5 @ 7Gbps, 128-Bit	Up To 2GB GDDR5 @ 7Gbps, 128-Bit	Up To 2GB GDDR5 @ 6Gbps, 64-Bit
TDP	250W	180W	150W	120W	75W	75W	30W
Process Node	16nm	16nm	16nm	16nm	14nm	14nm	14nm

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Michael Justin Allen Sexton is a Contributing Writer for Tom's Hardware US. He covers hardware component news, specializing in CPUs and motherboards.

6 Comments Comment from the forums

zippyzion

This is it people, the bottom rung of NVidia desktop PC graphics. Now, for the shocking truth. Tom's hierarchy chart puts this card's performance similar to the 9800 GX2. This budget card has roughly the same kind of performance as the card that ruled them all, 9 years ago. Oh what a time to be alive.
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AgentLozen

ZIPPYZION said:
This budget card has roughly the same kind of performance as the card that ruled them all, 9 years ago. Oh what a time to be alive.

Put this card into your system and enjoy all the thrills of Half Life 2. Make America great again in Call of Duty Modern Warfare. Explore the scenic landscapes of Elder Scrolls IV Obilvion! Be awe stricken by the technological marvel of Crysis at 25fps in 720p.

Now you're playing with POWER!
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elbert

This card with a Ryzen 1200 is a real solution to just buying an i5 using the iGPU. Its a great option to create a home media center.
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littleleo

20195749 said:
This is it people, the bottom rung of NVidia desktop PC graphics. Now, for the shocking truth. Tom's hierarchy chart puts this card's performance similar to the 9800 GX2. This budget card has roughly the same kind of performance as the card that ruled them all, 9 years ago. Oh what a time to be alive.

I think that is a little generous. But as soon as the GPU mining craze dies down and card prices normalize the price/performance metric will be at the best we've seen ever.
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bennie101

wow the performance of this card is nearly 9 years old???? why bother with such a low end gpu there are far better cards for the money.
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elbert

Seems to me the GT1030 is more on par with the Nvidia 750. It even outperforms the 750ti in tomshardware review on DOOM. Should be a bracket higher I would say.
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