News Vendor rolls out two new decade-old Nvidia GT 730 GPUs — 2GB and 4GB models, starting at $45

[Admin]

The GT 730 makes a comeback, courtesy of Maxsun.

Vendor rolls out two new decade-old Nvidia GT 730 GPUs — 2GB and 4GB models, starting at $45 : Read more

 

[Gaidax]

These just refuse to die, eh?

 

[Giroro]

What happened to the GT 1010?

 

[ezst036]

Someone somewhere found a dusty crate of old GPUs, old memory, perhaps probably both. It probably made more business sense to push the product outward for cost than to write it off as junk and put it in the trash.

 

[why_wolf]

I wonder if someone found a pallet of completed boards or if they actually went through the trouble of completing the manufacturing of some half finished products?

I have to imagine their perceived customer base is the low end PC Cafes you find in poorer countries. You can find some poverty tourism youtubers visiting them. Very old and low end specs.

 

[dimar]

I'd a GT 5030 for my htpc with the latest upscaling features.

 

[Amdlova]

These GPU is aways cheaper... and work great!

 

[torbjorn.lindgren]

What happened to the GT 1010?

It doesn't have native VGA output (missing HW) which is the only output that matters in a number of industrial (and server!) applications. Yes, there's HDMI or DP dongles that output VGA but they are janky and unreliable compared to just using a 710 or 730. And it's more than fast enough for basic Windows and likely sold cheaper (even before the whole "not needing a dongle").

There are actually 1030 cards with the HDMI/DP to VGA converter integrated on the GPU so they can have a "genuine" VGA output, these do work better than using a dongle but these starts at several times the price of a 710/730. Which is why these will probably be made long after 1010/1030 is but a memory.

The only reason it's not a much bigger market is that pretty much all servers have VGA outputs via the graphics built into the IPMI BMC (usually from ASPEED) which provides the remote management (power control, remove KVM and other out-of-band management).

Even brand new top of the line servers often has either VGA only or VGA with "option" (extra cost) to add mini-DP or something else modern (look at the spec sheet for say a Dell R7715 if you don't believe me, 5th gen EPYC, up to 40 EDSFF (PCIe) for storage, up to 6TB RAM and... VGA).

 

[mrdoc22]

I have one GT730 card in my backuppc for years
(changed it because it ran out of driversupport).

It ran with less problems than the "gamer" ATI card in the "gamer" computer.
(Just using WHQL drivers)

It's good just too browse, Windows or some "oldshool" gaming in the old games.

 

[Giroro]

It doesn't have native VGA output (missing HW) which is the only output that matters in a number of industrial (and server!) applications. Yes, there's HDMI or DP dongles that output VGA but they are janky and unreliable compared to just using a 710 or 730. And it's more than fast enough for basic Windows and likely sold cheaper (even before the whole "not needing a dongle").

There are actually 1030 cards with the HDMI/DP to VGA converter integrated on the GPU so they can have a "genuine" VGA output, these do work better than using a dongle but these starts at several times the price of a 710/730. Which is why these will probably be made long after 1010/1030 is but a memory.

The only reason it's not a much bigger market is that pretty much all servers have VGA outputs via the graphics built into the IPMI BMC (usually from ASPEED) which provides the remote management (power control, remove KVM and other out-of-band management).

Even brand new top of the line servers often has either VGA only or VGA with "option" (extra cost) to add mini-DP or something else modern (look at the spec sheet for say a Dell R7715 if you don't believe me, 5th gen EPYC, up to 40 EDSFF (PCIe) for storage, up to 6TB RAM and... VGA).

But seriously though, what happened to the GT 1010?

 

[Joseph_138]

But seriously though, what happened to the GT 1010?

It was never released in large numbers. It was mostly an OEM card for small form factor office PC's that needed a cheap, dedicated video card, that didn't use much power, in the same way as the GT 210 and 710. Nvidia probably didn't have a lot of crippled Pascal chips that met the spec binned to do a very large run. When they ran out, that was it.

 

[Joseph_138]

The Len

It doesn't have native VGA output (missing HW) which is the only output that matters in a number of industrial (and server!) applications. Yes, there's HDMI or DP dongles that output VGA but they are janky and unreliable compared to just using a 710 or 730. And it's more than fast enough for basic Windows and likely sold cheaper (even before the whole "not needing a dongle").

There are actually 1030 cards with the HDMI/DP to VGA converter integrated on the GPU so they can have a "genuine" VGA output, these do work better than using a dongle but these starts at several times the price of a 710/730. Which is why these will probably be made long after 1010/1030 is but a memory.

The only reason it's not a much bigger market is that pretty much all servers have VGA outputs via the graphics built into the IPMI BMC (usually from ASPEED) which provides the remote management (power control, remove KVM and other out-of-band management).

Even brand new top of the line servers often has either VGA only or VGA with "option" (extra cost) to add mini-DP or something else modern (look at the spec sheet for say a Dell R7715 if you don't believe me, 5th gen EPYC, up to 40 EDSFF (PCIe) for storage, up to 6TB RAM and... VGA).

The Lenovo GT 1010 has one VGA and one HDMI.

 

[BFG-9000]

All the usual Chinese marketplaces have an unofficial "RTX 4010" for twice that price. It's an overclocked Nvidia RTX A400 workstation GPU that can run Crysis high settings at 80fps.

Unlike the GT 730, it has no native VGA or Windows XP drivers. And the price is too high for someone who just wants basic output for a system with no IGP, which is getting to be something of a rarity nowadays besides those "F" CPUs where the IGP is there but defective and disabled. Such customers simply would not not care that these Maxsun GT 730s are even equipped with DDR3 which makes them only about as fast as Sandy Bridge IGP from 14 years ago.

That may actually be a plus if these are intended for use by office drones, so they can't waste time doing unproductive things.

 

[beyondlogic]

raising old chips from dead is good if it stops them lying in a landfill.

 

[torbjorn.lindgren]

The Len
The Lenovo GT 1010 has one VGA and one HDMI.

So it has the DP->VGA (or HDMI->VGA) converter on the board (because the Nvidia core doesn't have the hardware to support VGA, no way to generate analog RGB).

As I mentioned about GT1030 with VGA these do exists but are rare and while they're somewhat less janky than the external adapter solution it's not as solid as the "it just works" as a GT730 or GT210 for VGA. So it costs more thanks to the extra components, for less (in this context).