GeForce GT 1030
As an Amazon Associate we may earn from qualifying purchases.
How it stacks up to the flagship
Each metric is shown as a percentage of the GeForce RTX 5090 D, the strongest card we track.
Estimated benchmark results
Each result is shown as a share of the RTX 5090 D's score in the same test.
Performance breakdown
FPS Across Resolutions
Average FPS across all PC games
Cost per frame
Launch MSRP ($79) ÷ average FPS — lower is better.
What Owners Say
Owners like it for basic desktop use and light gaming on a tight budget, but they complain it chokes on anything modern and the 2GB version is a scam.
- Plays older games at low settings
- Sips power, needs no extra cables
- Fits tiny cases without hassle
- Quiet fan won't annoy you
- Too weak for modern gaming
- Only 64-bit memory bus
- Lacks hardware encoding support
Supported technologies
Full specifications
- CUDA Cores
- 384
- TMUs
- 24
- ROPs
- 16
- L2 cache
- 512 MB
- Size
- 4 GB
- Type
- GDDR5
- Bus width
- 64-bit
- Bandwidth
- 48.06 GB/s
- Memory clock
- 1502 MHz
- Base clock
- 1228 MHz
- Boost clock
- 1468 MHz
- FP32 (float)
- 1.127 TFLOPS
- FP16 (half)
- 1.127 TFLOPS
- Pixel rate
- 23 GPixel/s
- Texture rate
- 35.23 GTexel/s
- TDP
- 30W
- Suggested PSU
- 50W
- Power connectors
- None
- Bus interface
- PCIe 3.0 x4
- Length
- 145 mm
- Slot width
- 1-slot
- Max resolution
- 7680×4320
- Outputs
- 1x DVI, 1x HDMI
API and SDK support
- DirectX
- 12 (12_1)
- Shader Model
- 6.4
- OpenGL
- 4.6
- OpenCL
- 1.2
- Vulkan
- 1.2.131
- CUDA
- 6.1
Our verdict on the GT 1030
The GT 1030 is a tiny, quiet, low-power entry-level card that barely handles 1080p gaming, but its main caveat is the crippled 64-bit memory bus.
Get it if you need a cheap, low-power card just to get a basic display output for office work or media playback. Skip it if you plan to game at all, even older titles will struggle badly.
Buy it if…
- You want a basic office PC that can drive two 4K monitors.
- You need a silent, low-power GPU for a home theater computer.
- You have a very tight budget and play only old or simple games.
Its place in the overall top
797 votes