GIGABYTE Begins Offering GeForce GT 1030 Pascal Graphics Cards Again

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A growing number of graphics card manufacturers have opted to dust off some of their older SKUs to help gamers and like-minded enthusiasts cope with the insufferable shortage of GPUs. The latest is GIGABYTE, which, based on new supply obtained by Japan’s Hermitage Akihabara and other retailers, has seemingly revived its Pascal-era GeForce GT 1030 (GV-N1030D4-2GL) from 2017. Despite its relatively measly 384 CUDA Core count and 2 GB of DDR4 memory, the card is already going for as high as $120 above its original MSRP.



GT 1030s are consistently selling for $200 on eBay.I wish this was an April Fool's joke…https://t.co/rqEZ6fH0Vn— Greg Salazar (@GregSalazarYT) April 1, 2021



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[Brian_B]

Yay?

 

[LazyGamer]

Yay?

I'll defend the higher-end parts; and perhaps this one isn't terrible considering it's still mostly just a set of display outputs.

But the GT1030 kind of hits right in the feels. It's really as low-end as low-end gets, not being particularly useful for much of anything other than just being a GPU and taking Nvidia drivers.

 

[Dogsofjune]

Stupid