Manufacturers release slower Nvidia GT 1030 video cards with DDR4 memory

Several manufacturers have released Nvidia GT 1030 video cards with ddr4 instead of gddr5. The ddr4 memory is slower, but also more economical. The cards have a TDP of 20 watts instead of 30 watts. This is partly due to a lower clocked GPU.

The GT 1030 video cards with ddr4 memory were spotted by AnandTech. The website reports that Palit, MSI and Gigabyte have released versions with ddr4. The three manufacturers use ddr4 memory with a throughput rate of 2100Mbit/s, instead of gddr5 memory with a rate of 6000Mbit/s. The 64-bit memory bus and memory size of 2GB is unchanged.

Using the ddr4 memory results in a total memory bandwidth of 16.8GB/s, much lower than the 48GB/s that the GT 1030 cards with GDDR5 achieve. In addition, all manufacturers clocked the GPU on the DDR4 versions lower. Clock speeds vary by manufacturer.

Nvidia announced the GeForce GT 1030 in May last year. The manufacturer itself has not yet published anything about the models with DDR4 memory. There are no ddr4 variants of the GT 1030 in the Pricewatch yet. They are probably cheaper than the models with gddr5.