EVGA GeForce GT 1030 DDR4 Graphic Cards 02G-P4-6232-KR review

EVGA GeForce GT 1030 DDR4 Graphic Cards 02G-P4-6232-KR review

EVGA GeForce GT 1030 DDR4 Graphic Cards 02G-P4-6232-KR review

 the vast majority of gamers don't have a disposable income to spend  on just one component the issue is four year's budget cards have been a horrible value for example the geforce 210 a  graphics card from 

2009 have many people dollar for potato if you're lucky the solution for many was go on ebay get something used that be more powerful for the same price with the GT 1030 I'm not sure if that solution so works take the GTX of the DTI for example previously celebrated of a fantastic budget option the GTX some of the DCI is now more expensive use than a ZT except 30 is new 

despite the GT 1030 being close to performance that's under the ti and the Sons of the GI using wtdp now I'm not saying that 1030 is the best price performance card you can buy there are certainly better options however the GT 1030 s price to performance ratio is actually close to an average subacute or used graphic card and considering the advantages like low heat production low power draw and low profile form factor the GT 730 is actually very enticing so how does it 

sound thirty actually perform well it does it quite a few games and here's what I got , so as you can tell the GT 10:30 performed quite well any game I could throw at it however an invidious 30 series of graphics weren't always such a good value a few years ago throughly to the GT 730 essentially all the videos budget offerings or really bad let's take a look at on the GT 1030 compared to the GTS out of 30 in GTA 5 , so that means you narcs budget bill to feature GT 10:30 right probably not unless TDP your form facts are extremely important to you in dy suspend an extra $ and get an RX I've 64 just  you can buy a 4 gigabyte our 

exercise 60 which will be substantially faster than 10 30 and will be limited on the theorem that being said the rx 550 isn't low-profile Mizpah 75 watt TDP compared to the GT 10 30 s 30 watts so really is TDP form dr. Katz's architecture and most of all as wor price tag are your deciding factors then the 10 30 would be difficult to these flip those factors are relevant to you and are 550 or 562 is substantially better value anyway tell you for this video what are your experiences upload your graphics cards leader comment down below.


I have something very special for you guys and that's Nvidia's newest super budget graphics card to GT 10:30 I know a ton of you have already seen my should--you game with a graphics card video and that was with the Nvidia GT 730 so today we're going to answer that question but with the  graphics card so let's get into it before getting into the benchmarks we will get to them soon I promise you might be wondering what exactly the GT 1030 is and 

who should buy it in a nutshell its Nvidia super low-end upgrade to the now several generations old GT 730 the X series cards aren't made every year and they aren't actually intended for gaming the GT 1030 is what Nvidia claims as a good budget from the option to upgrading your CPUs integrated graphics the GT 1030 is mainly meant for things like home theater pcs or multi monitor productivity machines however on the flip side with two gigabytes of vram and a boost clock of 1468 megahertz one might argue that this is an eSport gaming graphics card the

 exact card I'm testing today is the MSI version which actually has a slightly higher boost clock of 1518 megahertz and a base clock of 1265 megahertz it requires no external power connector from your power supply and only needs about 30 watts to run now Nvidia does claim that this graphics card needs a 300 watt power supply to run but I'm pretty sure that's just being extra safe I would bet that this card works in any of those budget OAM desktops just make sure that 

the power supply in it is from a reputable brand moving on a ton of different GT 1030 designs have this low profile design which would be perfect for those tiny ITX PC builds are even upgrading those super slim workstation pcs my specific MSI gt70 came included with both the normal and short sized brackets and has one HDMI 2.0 B and one DisplayPort 1.4 port now before you guys asked me which GT 1030 you should go with I would personally look at what 

ports it has and how much it cost the specific MSI gt70 that I picked doesn't waste time with the DVI fork which is why I picked it alright so with all that out of the way it's time to do some benchmarking but first let's take a look at the testing rate for today it's my personal computer which is rocking an i7 4790k without an overclocked 16 gigabytes of ddr3 RAM and they are installed on an MSI gaming 5 motherboard now like I explained in all my budget benchmarking videos like the player unknown battlegrounds won this testing rig is 

complete overkill but I did it for a reason this eliminates all potential bottlenecks and it allows us to see the best case scenario for this car now for the benchmarks I decided to start with some games that this card is kind of designed for like eSports title and then I get into higher demanding games just to see if they could even run them first up I tested none other than csgo because almost every PC gamer is or has played this game at one point the GT 1030 as you can see here absolutely crushed the benchmark averaging 198 FPS in 1080p on high and this is 

what it looks like you could easily pump this game up to higher resolutions if you wanted to but I know a ton of you play this game with high refresh rate monitors so I'm going to make sure we stayed above 144 FPS for this one after csgo I went with another classic PC gaming monster dota 2 please ignore the gameplay as I have absolutely no idea what I was doing here but here we can see that the GT 1030 dominates the benchmark yet again here I averaged 68 FPS in 

1080p and everything set to the max setting I don't benchmark this game often so I didn't even know what to select here but turning everything on and to high seemed like the right thing to do next up I kept in the eSports theme and what was one of my personal favorites over watch here I average an impressive 72 FPS in 1080p with high settings and this test actually surprised me a bit high settings for a super explosive shooter like overwatch is pretty amazing actually and this just goes to show how far technology has come with these super budget graphics cards 

you can see here that I had no problem landing all these Woodham Aker feels like a complete boss now after testing these easy eSport titles like I said I wanted to test the GT 1030 with some games it's not really designed for like June 2016 doom was a really hard one to test because it's definitely a graphics card intensive game and the map can really change the results of your FPS I averaged out results from a bunch of different tests and averaged them together for a 34 FPS

 average there were some maps where I was running about 25 FPS the whole time and others where I was getting a consistent 40 FPS so I would say that it is playable but not consistent at all might want to knock down the resolution here a bit next up I fired away at Grand Theft Auto 5 in 1080p with normal quality no anti-aliasing and softest shadows I averaged a stupid impressive 87 frames per second this one actually shocked me as well I know that GTA 5 is a 

CPU intensive title but it still relies on a graphics card quite a bit I didn't expect it to be so playable on this  GPU and if you're only aiming to get that 60 FPS mark you could even turn up the graphics quite a bit and to wrap up the graphically demanding game I attended battlefield 1 now obviously this also has a lot to do with which map you're on how many people are playing online etc but I still averaged a very nice 56 fps here online in 1080p low settings and it was a great playing experience I think what these last three games proved is that this 

card can actually run anything you throw at it in 1080p you'll just have to knock down the 
settings a good bit so with the benchmarks out of the way I want to clarify something before ending this video although we got some really great results for such a cheap card there are definitely better price to performance options out there if you buy use I've mentioned before that I'm personally not a big fan of buying use parts so if you're anything like me and when you buy something you want to have that guarantee that it works and a warranty then the  GT 

1030 is a pretty solid option my reason for explaining this is because I know a ton of you are going to talk about how much better value you can get out of a used graphics card down in the comments section and although you kind of are correct when buying used you don't get that guarantee that it works or a warranty and that means more to some people than others well that wraps up my review of the Nvidia GT 1030 I have a ton of future videos playing for this 

such as putting it in an extreme budget build benchmarking every eSport title out there but I want to know what you guys want to see make sure you let me know in the comment section.

EVGA GeForce GT 1030 DDR4 Graphic Cards 02G-P4-6232-KR review

the worst graphics card ever released well certainly in the last decade before I continue with that though imagine you're a gamer on a seriously tight budget no no it's likely that a lot of you won't have to be too creative after all PC gaming is just something that most of us do to unwind after a day at work so relax a bit have a bit of fun so not everyone can afford to invest hundreds upon hundreds of dollars in PC gaming when there are other bills to be paid you might also be a young kid getting into PC gaming and computing in general for that matter and that can be 

tough for some most parents are going to be more interested in the idea of buying a console than a computer which I feel is a mistake but let's not get into that here point is these people don't have endless money to spend on upgrading or building a new PC so they're after an affordable graphics card and more often than not they're also just getting started on their PC gaming journey so they aren't super experienced when it comes to buying a new graphics card 

some light research will show you that sub  graphics cards such as the GT 1030 is capable of delivering over 60 fps in fortnight at 1080p using competitive quality settings so for most that will be enough and although something like a gtx 1050 is more the GT 1030 does what you need so why spend the extra money of course we could come up with a few good reasons but we understand why so many people buy these entry-level graphics cards so you've seen the benchmarks you know your system can produce at least 60 FPS with the 

GeForce GT 1030 so you buy one for the typical asking price , however what you don't know is that not all GT 1030 graphics cards are the same not even close you could buy a GT 1030 that will indeed spit out over 60 fps in fortnight at 1080p or you could be getting one that barely keeps the framerate above 30 fps the problem for you is they both have the same name the exact same name you might expect the version that's around 50% slower it'd be called 

something like the GT 1030 alley or GT 1030 se or better yet a completely different name like the GT 1020 for example instead though NVIDIA has decided to grossly misled customers into thinking lgt 1030 graphics cards are equal so what exactly is going on here then well more than a year ago now back in May of 2017 and video released the GT 1030 as the most affordable GPU in the GeForce ten series it came in an MSRP ,and packed on an 84 CUDA cores clocked at 1.2 eight gigahertz with a boost frequency of one point four seven gigahertz 

and the gddr5 memory was clocked at 1.5 gigahertz and using a mere 64-bit wide memory bus provided a bandwidth of 48 gigabytes per second the GT 1030 wasn't blowing any socks off but it was what it was an ultra affordable current generation GPU however as of March 2018 budget shoppers could no longer buy a GT 1030 and know exactly what they were getting at least without taking note of the type of memory used this is because Nvidia quietly introduced a ddr4 version using the type of memory modern desktop PCs use as system memory this is a 

massive problem because ddr4 memory is significantly slower than gddr5 memory firstly the memory base frequency has been reduced by 30% and as bad as that sounds the end result is far worse gddr5 memory has two parallel links which provide double the i/o throughput when compared to ddr4 this means the memory frequency has actually been reduced by 65% and because we're still using the same 64 bit wide memory bus this also means the memory 

bandwidth has been reduced by 65 percent down from an already anemic 48-year bytes per second the end result sees the ddr4 version of the GT 1030 with a 16 point eight gigabytes per second link to its two gigabyte memory buffer that's only slightly more bandwidth in the misérable ddr3 version of the geforce GT 730 released back in 2014 then for whatever reason NVIDIA has also cut down the core frequency dropping the ddr4 version down to one point one five gigahertz which is a six percent reduction okay so the ddr4 version has way less memory 

bandwidth but has the same name and looking around online seems to come in and about the same price so as a potential GT 1030 how worried should you be Nvidia didn't feel the need to change the name so can it really be that different well we're about to find out for testing all graphics cards were benchmarked on our core i3 80-100 test system with 8 gigabytes of ddr4 2666 memory and also thrown in for comparison is the Rison 5 2400 G APU using its integrated 

vaguer 11 graphics with 8 gigabytes of ddr4 2666 memory ok let's get into the results for testing battlefield 1 we've gone with the low quality preset now normally we test low-end graphics cards and even ap use with the medium quality settings in this title but at 720p the GT 1030 ddr4 version was barely able to deliver playable performance using the low quality preset did allow for 51 FPS on average and that doesn't seem too bad that is until you realize the gddr5 

version is 104 percent faster moving to 1080p and now the ddr4 version of the GT 1030 can't even achieve 30 FPS using the lowest possible quality settings are you kidding me The Horizon 520 400g apu is 64% faster and way worse than that is the fact that the gddr5 version the original GT 1030 is 118 percent faster 118 % I'm not even sure what to say about that right now so let's just move on using the lowest possible quality settings in pray at 720p the G ddr4 GT 

1030 did manage to average just over 60 fps and again that meant the gddr5 model was roughly twice as fast upping the resolution of 1080p and now the gddr5 model is more than twice as fast as the pathetic ddr4 version again we see that with the lowest possible quality settings enabled the ddr4 version can't even achieve 30 FPS on average far cry 5 is a new title and it's fairly well optimized but if you bought the ddr4 version of the GT 1030 you're gonna have a bad time even 

at 720p using the lowest possible quality things we couldn't average 30 fps meanwhile the gddr5 model was almost 80% faster and that's the smallest much and we've seen yet here are the cherry pea results and really what can you say even the gddr5 version of the GT 1030 sucks here but the ddr4 model it's really something else pure garbage is what it is although dirt 4 was playable using the lowest possible quality settings it was still a far cry from what the gddr5 

versions are capable of at 1080p the ddr4 version dips well below 60 FPS while the gddr5 model was able to keep the framerate above 80 FPS at all times I suspect a lot of the GT 1030 graphics cards currently being purchased by those wanting to get into fortnight and if true those who got caught out by the ddr4 version will be livid results like these will show the GT 1030 pushing over 100 FPS at all times using the medium quality settings at 720p the duty r4 version though 

struggles to get the dips above 60 FPS but I guess it's playable so there is that of course most won't want to play at 720p if they can avoid it and avoid it they can't with the ddr4 version here we see just 38 FPS on average will hold the original GT 1030 span at an average of 66 fps moving on the rocket link and here we see just 60 FPS an average of 720p using the in-game quality preset named quality in this instance the gddr5 model was almost 90% faster with 114 

FPS on average then at 1080p the G ddr4 GT 1030 scrapes by with 32 FPS on average and at this more memory intensive resolution the gddr5 model was 122 % faster just ridiculous that is the last game we're going to look at is Rainbow six siege and here we see even when using the lowest possible quality options at 720p the ddr4 GT 1030 is good for 73 FPS which isn't bad apart from the fact that the gddr5 model is almost 80% faster with 130 FPS then once again at 

1080p this seriously limited ddr4 models performance is heavily limited and here we saw an average of just 39 FPS making the gddr5 model 65% fast now not that it matters in the least but here are the power consumption figures because the memory is choking the GPU the ddr4 version uses less power reducing total system consumption by 16% that said given we often saw 

a 50% reduction in performance that actually makes the TDR for version significantly worse in terms of performance per watt Wow where do I even start with a product like this I'm actually still coming to terms with the fact that this product even exists how the bloody hell does this exist actually I should be clear about this as rubbish as this ddr4 version of the GT 1030 years I don't have too much of a problem with its existence it probably shouldn't exist but the fact that

 it does isn't the real issue here the real issue is Nvidia had the goal to call it a GT 1030 and not a GT 1020 for example I don't even know how they can get away with doing that as we saw it was often 50% slower than the gddr5 version yet it has the exact same name and price again how is this possible it's not like we were trying to cripple performance or test under some unusual condition either to make it look worse than it really is almost all the games tested we're 

done so using the lowest possible quality preset at 720p and 1080p the gddr5 model can actually handle higher visual quality settings at 1080p and doing so would further cripple the ddr4 version so we're actually showing a best-case scenario if anything I can't imagine how up side be if I've been saving up bit by bit for weeks on end to upgrade my graphics card only to end up with that thing I'd never trust in review again I also couldn't imagine ever buying a geforce 

product for the rest of my life and I'd also be very upset with the retail sobbing the product even though I probably realize at the time that it wasn't necessarily their fault actually that led me to reach out to a few of our local retail to see what their take was on the ddr4 version of the GT 1030 and do they ever see any kind of backlash from this sort of thing for obvious reasons I won't name any of the retailers but I can tell you what they told me and they all said pretty 

much the same thing for the big issue for retailers is that they often don't know the exact models that they're buying and I know that sounds a bit silly but it doesn't make sense the people in these purchasing roles often aren't computer geeks computer nerds whatever term you'd like to use there and they pay attention to things like product codes and pricing not the type of memory the graphics card uses they'll see that GT 1030 stock is low and they'll order 

more GT 1030 stock and it's not like each brand only has a single GT 1030 model even before the ddr4 mass most brands offered four to five different models it sounds like a lot of the people in these purchasing roles unknowingly bought up ddr4 GT 1030 stock just assuming it was the same gddr5 models that they'd been buying for the past year the specs are often supplied and then just copy and paste it onto the website and again this isn't anything unusual almost all of 

them admitted that if it wasn't for the controversy around the spec change they would have been none the wiser and it would have been just pure chance if they happen to notice the change at all they also said unless the model name has changed or there is some obvious difference this stuff generally goes under the radar this then causes massive issues for these retailers as they are unknowingly selling their customers inferior products and that's not 

something they want to do for obvious reasons a reputation really is everything in this business so Nvidia aren't just hurting their customers they're also hurting the retailers as well as their own board partners this really is a bad look for anyone involved again I really don't know how this kind of thing happens in the first place but yes I am painfully aware this isn't the first time a new video has done something like this and I also aware that AMD recently dabbled with the 

dodgy naming as well though nothing as horrific as this anyway this kind of crap has to stop and I hope big youtubers you know the guys with 1 million plus hubs and other large media outlets do their own testing and show their viewers and readers what's going on here I think gamers Nexus were the first of the punch on this one showing actual benchmarks late last month so good on them for doing that great work as always we were a bit slow getting this 

dumpster fire down under but tea now so fellow Ozzy's be warned we were always in review right gonna be too happy with this review and we won't be surprised if we don't receive samples for the generation GPU launch be a real shame if that is the case but if it is not the end of the world we'll just have to buy the GPUs ourselves.


Learn more about the EVGA 02G-P4-6232-KR

ModelBrandEVGAModel02G-P4-6232-KR
InterfaceInterfacePCI Express 3.0
ChipsetChipset ManufacturerNVIDIAGPUGeForce GT 1030Core Clock1189 MHzBoost Clock1430 MHzCUDA Cores384
MemoryEffective Memory Clock2100 MHzMemory Size2GBMemory Interface64-BitMemory TypeSDDR4
3D APIDirectXDirectX 12OpenGLOpenGL 4.6
PortsHDMI1 x HDMI 2.0bMulti-Monitor Support2DVI1 x Single-Link DVI-D
DetailsMax Resolution3840 x 2160CoolerFanlessOperating Systems SupportedWindows 10 32/64bit
Windows 8 32/64bit
Windows 7 32/64bitSystem Requirements300-Watt or greater power supply*
Total Power Draw: 30 Watts

PCI Express, PCI Express 2.0 or PCI Express 3.0 compliant motherboard with one graphics slot

*Minimum system power requirement based on a PC configured with an Intel Core i7 3.2 GHz processor.
FeaturesFeaturesPCI Express 3.0

HDMI 2.0b and Single-Link DVI

Low-Profile Ready

Built for EVGA Precision XOC

Max Digital Resolution - 3840x2160 (60Hz)

NVIDIA GPU Boost 3.0

OpenGL 4.6 Support

Microsoft DirectX 12 API

Vulkan API

NVIDIA GameWorks Technology
Form Factor & DimensionsForm FactorLow Profile ReadyMax GPU Length145 mmLow Profile Bracket IncludedYesCard Dimensions (L x H)5.70" x 2.71"Slot WidthDual Slot


Graphics Processor
GPU NameGP108GPU VariantGP108-310-A1ArchitecturePascalFoundrySamsungProcess Size14 nmTransistors1,800 millionDie Size74 mm²

Clock Speeds
Base Clock1152 MHz
1189 MHz (+3%)Boost Clock1379 MHz
1430 MHz (+4%)Memory Clock1050 MHz
2100 MHz effective

Graphics Card
Release DateMar 12th, 2018GenerationGeForce 10PredecessorGeForce 900SuccessorGeForce 20ProductionActiveBus InterfacePCIe 3.0 x4

Theoretical Performance
Pixel Rate22.06 GPixel/s
22.88 GPixel/sTexture Rate33.10 GTexel/s
34.32 GTexel/sFP16 (half) performance16.55 GFLOPS
17.16 GFLOPS (1:64)FP32 (float) performance1,059 GFLOPS
1,098 GFLOPSFP64 (double) performance33.10 GFLOPS
34.32 GFLOPS (1:32)



Render Config
Shading Units384TMUs24ROPs16SM Count3L1 Cache48 KB (per SM)L2 Cache512 KB

Board Design
Slot WidthSingle-slotLength5.7 inches
145 mmTDP20 WSuggested PSU350 WOutputs1x DVI
1x HDMIPower ConnectorsNoneBoard NumberPG111 SKU 01



Graphics Features
DirectX12 (12_1)OpenGL4.6OpenCL1.2Vulkan1.2.131CUDA6.1Shader Model6.4



Memory
Memory Size2 GBMemory TypeDDR4Memory Bus64 bitBandwidth16.80 GB/s.

EVGA GeForce GT 1030 DDR4 Graphic Cards 02G-P4-6232-KR review

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