GT 710 was not a meme card when it was released, as it has hardware decoding of H.264, i.e. it was being able to play compressed 1080p videos witch was a big deal back then. It only became meme card later when Nvidia continued to produce it. As for GT 1030 , it was a budget gaming card in the PS4 era (roughly 2015-2020) , i.e. it would run PS4 ports at 1080p low , sometimes 1080p med. For lots of people it was enough, especially since it did not have large power requirements, i.e. you could slap it in any office computer it would work. AMD actually had better offer with RX 460, but some people preferred Nvidia. Now, there is all that controversy with Nvidia releasing 1030 cards with both GDDR5 and GDDR4 memory (later being lot slower), but that is theirs unfortunate practice even today.
Interesting to see how this GPU performs 7 years after it's launch, I have it (MX150) in my laptop. I did test the HD5450 recently and man, the gt1030 feels like a 4090 compared to it :"D
Well, it was never intended to be a gaming GPU; but if that's all that you have, then at least you know it's not all doom and gloom, you can still have a bit of fun online with it.
it's also part of the meme that this card has several extremely similarly named variants that have (sometimes significantly) differing performance. it kinda shines as a media PC low profile card and stuff like minecraft or stellaris and similar titles. it's neat to see it can hold it's own in warframe and fortnite reloaded though.
@@HerrAlien it might be worth testing against some other older/cheap GPUs from an encoding perspective, since that's an actual use case for NVENC or VCE, for x264, OBS, Twitch, et c. maybe as a cheap little card to stuff in a cheap optiplex or z230 and you use it as a streamer PC for passthrough? might be interesting comparison.
Yeah, that's the intended purpose, but it can still fail at that if one does not pay attention! I tried using it for media decoding in a PC, and performed bad, with some slowdowns in playback. A Fermi GT 730 however performed like a breeze. You see, that PC was using an i5 2400 - that's PCIE gen 2. The GT 1030 was limited to 4 lanes of slow gen 2, while the Fermi card used all 16 lanes. That's 4 times the bandwidth.
@@asrr62 I guess when it comes to these types of cards, knowing what to expect from them is important. Funny enough though, I still see the 1030 at the 40 USD price mark. There's got to be a drmand for them.
GT 710 was not a meme card when it was released, as it has hardware decoding of H.264, i.e. it was being able to play compressed 1080p videos witch was a big deal back then. It only became meme card later when Nvidia continued to produce it. As for GT 1030 , it was a budget gaming card in the PS4 era (roughly 2015-2020) , i.e. it would run PS4 ports at 1080p low , sometimes 1080p med. For lots of people it was enough, especially since it did not have large power requirements, i.e. you could slap it in any office computer it would work. AMD actually had better offer with RX 460, but some people preferred Nvidia. Now, there is all that controversy with Nvidia releasing 1030 cards with both GDDR5 and GDDR4 memory (later being lot slower), but that is theirs unfortunate practice even today.
Interesting to see how this GPU performs 7 years after it's launch, I have it (MX150) in my laptop. I did test the HD5450 recently and man, the gt1030 feels like a 4090 compared to it :"D
Funny thing is i had the HD5450 and then the GT1030 for a period of time as my main GPU
@@kubol1909 It was a big improvement, right?
@@gaming.teacher Night and day, but it was still dog water, now i have a Gtx 1630 and it's alright
@@kubol1909 Relatively it was better to the HD but absolutely it was still bad. Are you into SFF? As all the GPUs you had are in that size.
Well, it was never intended to be a gaming GPU; but if that's all that you have, then at least you know it's not all doom and gloom, you can still have a bit of fun online with it.
it's also part of the meme that this card has several extremely similarly named variants that have (sometimes significantly) differing performance. it kinda shines as a media PC low profile card and stuff like minecraft or stellaris and similar titles. it's neat to see it can hold it's own in warframe and fortnite reloaded though.
Oh, the DDR4 variant ... I had the 'pleasure' of testing an ASUS Pboenix variant that had DDR4.
@@HerrAlien it might be worth testing against some other older/cheap GPUs from an encoding perspective, since that's an actual use case for NVENC or VCE, for x264, OBS, Twitch, et c. maybe as a cheap little card to stuff in a cheap optiplex or z230 and you use it as a streamer PC for passthrough? might be interesting comparison.
Yeah, that's the intended purpose, but it can still fail at that if one does not pay attention!
I tried using it for media decoding in a PC, and performed bad, with some slowdowns in playback. A Fermi GT 730 however performed like a breeze.
You see, that PC was using an i5 2400 - that's PCIE gen 2. The GT 1030 was limited to 4 lanes of slow gen 2, while the Fermi card used all 16 lanes. That's 4 times the bandwidth.
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@GrainGrown it is also part => it's also ..
i couldnt deal with this card
@@asrr62 I guess when it comes to these types of cards, knowing what to expect from them is important.
Funny enough though, I still see the 1030 at the 40 USD price mark. There's got to be a drmand for them.