Several graphics card manufacturers would be changing the GDDR5 memories of the NVIDIA GT 1030, for DDR4 memories in these graphics cards, in order to reduce costs.
The situation that is occurring by some of the graphic card manufacturers is strange, they are launching models of the NVIDIA GT 1030, to which they are changing the VRAM memories of these graphic cards, which are GDDR5 and are mounting them with DDR4 chips. The performance of this graph would be causing a performance loss. The situation, although it has occurred on occasion in the past, is quite atypical, especially in graphics like this, quite discreet in performance.
The NVIDIA GT 1030 does not have enough power to move high-quality games, rather it is designed for office automation tasks and for eSports games, but especially in 720p resolution, we are not going to ask for pears either. Opting for DDR4 over GDDR5 is one more problem, further reducing performance.
Opting for this change is simply inexpensive. GDDR5 and DDR4 memories are based on the same design, but DDR4 memories are cheaper than GDDR5, thus allowing to reduce costs. Another reason is that GDDR5 memories are being highly sought after by major manufacturers and is one of the reasons why NVIDIA and AMD are unable to replenish the stock of graphics cards.
Palit, MSI and Gigabyte are the ones that so far are implementing DDR4 memories in the GT 1030, but not betting on the most powerful, it seems that they are betting on 2100MHz memories. In addition, this is weighed down by the 64-bit memory bus of this graphic, which reduces the performance of the VRAM that is usually integrated by 60%. These memories should bring with them a drop in the price of these simple charts.
Why do they want to implement DDR6 if we still have to use ddr4