A new low end card from nVIDIA: GT 1010.

[Uriel]

I must confess, I'm struggling to envisage what useful purpose this might serve? Extra monitors perhaps?

https://videocardz.com/newz/nvidia-geforce-gt-1010-has-been-tested-in-geekbench-spoiler-its-slow

Edit: Maybe nVIDIA have some defective chips that didn't make the 1030 lying around they need to get rid of.

 

[Uriel]

Perhaps I could stick it in my spare slot and run PhysX on it.

 

[Uriel]

If you read the article its not actually "new" its been "out" a year.

Must be a sloooooow news day.

I did read it. I don't believe any have been available to buy or spotted in the wild until now.

 

[Uriel]

Genuine question... Can it run Crysis?

The original in 1080p maxed settings

If you want to keep up 60fps - no. https://gamegpu.com/action-/-fps-/-tps/crysis-2007-retro-test-gpu-cpu-2 . A GTX 1650 can pull off an average of 60, with minimum drops in the 40s. A GTX 1050 ti gets average in the 40s, with drops to 30s (assuming no CPU bottleneck).

A fairer comparison is it might be able to run it about on par with the highest end Threadripper with the latter in software rendering mode.

Edit: This would suggest my Ryzen 2700x and RTX 2060 may be bang on the minimum required for running the original Crysis at 60fps plus on max at 1080p. Maybe I'll have to dig it out and have a go.

I must confess, I'm struggling to envisage what useful purpose this might serve? Extra monitors perhaps?

Actually yeah - I think nVIDIA maybe spotted the RX 6500 XT and RX 6400 only support a maximum of 2 monitors and decided to release this for a giggle.

 

[Uriel]

Spotted in the wild... https://videocardz.com/newz/nvidia-geforce-gt-1010-spotted-on-chinese-marketplace-for-70-usd

It still doesn't exactly sound like these are getting produced in volume.