Hunted in front of the camera the GP108 silicon of Nvidia's new graphics card, the GeForce GT 1030.
With 512 CUDA cores, and with a consumption of 30W, the GeForce GT 1030 promises to be a rival to the new AMD RX 550. The war of graphics for less than € 100 has just begun.
The GP108 silicon is really small, with an area around 100mm square. In comparison, the GP107 is 132mm square in size. Also remarkable is the fact that its TDP is only 30W. Therefore, it will only require the PCI-e 3.0 x4 connection to power itself, something sufficient for the niche you are targeting.
GeForce GT 1030 Specifications
This new low-end contender will use a GPU based on the Pascal architecture. It may be based on the same 14nm FinFET process used in the GP107. It is a replacement for the GT 930 / GT 730. The expected price for it is around $ 60-80 in the United States, so something around € 80 could be expected in Europe, putting it on a par with the Radeon RX 550.
The GP108 GPU will have 512 CUDA cores, so we are looking at only 2 GPCs (Graphics Processing Cluster), each with two SM (Streaming Multiprocessor) blocks. It will also make use of 32 TMUs and 16 ROPs. The card will have 2 or 4 GB of GDDR5 memory.
Nvidia is speculated to use the same 7Gbps chips used in the GTX 1050 line, resulting in 56GB / s memory bandwidth if the memory bus is 64-bit. Also, compared to the 50W TDP of the RX 550, the Nvidia GeForce GT 1030 will consume only 30W.
Nvidia GeForce GT 1030 benchmarks leaked in Ashes of the Singularity
In terms of performance, the card has one less SM drive than the GTX 1050, so it won't drop much in power. On the other hand, the Radeon RX 550 is half as powerful as its sister, the RX 560, so it will suffer from the loss of power.
Videocardz was able to find a performance test of the GeForce GT 1030 on Ashes of The Singularity. The 1.100 point score in standard settings shows what to expect from a card that was not designed for AAA gaming at 1080p resolution. It is a card with another type of objective in mind. For example, most eSports titles will be able to benefit from it.
It is expected to hit the market in mid-May 2017.
| AMD Radeon RX 550 | NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 | |
|---|---|---|
| Fabrication process | 14nm FinFET | 14nm FinFET |
| Silicon | Polaris 12 | Pascal GP108 |
| Core | 512 Stream Processors | 512 CUDA Cores |
| TMU's | 32 | 32 |
| ROPs | 16 | 16 |
| VRAM | 2/4GB GDDR5 | 2/4GB GDDR5 |
| Memory bus | 128-bit | 64-bit |
| TDP | 50W | 30W |
| Price | 80€ | 70-90 € |
Source: Wccftech