News Pascal Rides Again, Nvidia Launches the GeForce GT 1010

[Endymio]

What does VGA ports have anything to do with this?

See this post. I was disputing that claim that VGA port capability was the raison d'etre for this card. Seems you're agreeing with me.

As for corporations not having VGA stuff, you'd be surprised how long some companies keep stuff around and want the ability to reuse it if necessary

No, I wouldn't be surprised. But such situations don't encompass "keeping around" thousands of VGA-only monitors for business desktop usage. I'm quite sure there are many legacy VGA uses remaining: embedded, wall panels, or other exotic display applications. But these are niche applications, and don't justify the existence of cards like this, especially when VGA ports can be gotten easier and cheaper through AMD's and Intel's IG offerings.

 

[spongiemaster]

See this post. I was disputing that claim that VGA port capability was the raison d'etre for this card. Seems you're agreeing with me.

I never said this card was for adding VGA ports. I said generically that it was most likely for adding ports, and then I gave an example of what we had low cost addin cards for in our OEM systems, which happened to be for VGA ports.

Look at the different configurations the GT710 comes in:

HDMI+DVI+VGA Note this a $40 card at retail pricing.
HDMI+DVI
HDMI+2xDVI
4xHDMI

 

[watzupken]

If Nvidia is offering it, it likely is because there is enough demand from OEMs and corporate buyers for a direct GT710 successor to warrant it. Most of the market for this sort of ultra-budget GPUs is for desktop/office use and a GT1030 would be wasted on those since they aren't going to be used for anything beyond trivial 3D. In many cases, these are only used to drive additional display outputs.

When I read the article, I don't recall seeing this as an OEM only product. So if the demand is by OEM, which I agree would be the case, then no point for Nvidia to release to retail. From my experience, most corporate desktop/ laptops run on integrated GPUs from Intel. There is almost no reason to get an Nvidia card even if it is cheap. With more Ryzen (no iGPU) processors being pushed to OEMs, it is possible that a dedicated GPU is required. But I don't think AMD is silly enough to not provide their low end RX 540/550 as an add on.
I do agree on the last point about using it to drive additional display if the motherboard does not have sufficient display out ports.

 

[InvalidError]

When I read the article, I don't recall seeing this as an OEM only product. So if the demand is by OEM, which I agree would be the case, then no point for Nvidia to release to retail.

There is no harm in making it available to everyone. Though the primary customers may be OEMs, the next biggest markets for it are people who just need a basic GPU or extra outputs too, same reasons as OEMs/corporate.