GeForce GT 1030
Nvidia graphics card · GeForce 10 series · launched March 2018
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Launch price in today's dollars
The GeForce GT 1030 launched at $79 in 2018. Adjusted with the U.S. Consumer Price Index, that is about $104 in 2026 dollars (7-month average), a 32% rise over 8 years. At its launch price that is 91 Blender points per $100.
Method: launch price × (CPI 2026 average ÷ CPI 2018 average), calendar-year averages of BLS series CPIAUCSL. 2026 covers 7 months so far.
Blender rendering score
Median score 72 (middle half of runs 56–77) across 27 community runs on Blender 4.x with the OPTIX backend. That is #100 of 103 graphics cards in our dataset with a score, and #11 of 11 in the GeForce 10 series.
This is a rendering benchmark (samples per minute over the monster, junkshop and classroom scenes), not a gaming benchmark. It says how fast the part renders in Blender's Cycles engine and nothing about frame rates. Source: Blender Open Data, CC0, snapshot 2026-09-06.
Specifications
| Vendor | Nvidia |
|---|---|
| Series | GeForce 10 series |
| Launched | March 2018 |
| Launch price | $79 |
| Architecture | Pascal |
| Chip | GP108-310-A1 |
| Memory | 2 GB |
| Memory type | DDR4 |
| Memory bus | 64-bit |
| Memory bandwidth | 16.8 GB/s |
| Core clock | 1,152 MHz (boost 1,379 MHz) |
| FP32 compute | 1.06 TFLOPS |
| Rated power | 20 W (TDP) |
| Transistors | 1.8 billion |
| Die size | 74 mm² |
| Process | 14 nm |
| Bus interface | PCIe 3x4 |
| Tier | 30-class |
The Nvidia 30-class over time
Nvidia graphics cards in the same tier around this one, oldest first, re-releases left out. Prices in launch dollars and in 2026 dollars; scores are Blender 4.x medians where they exist.
| Part | Year | Launch price | In 2026 $ | Blender |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| GeForce 8300 | 2008 | — | — | — |
| GeForce GT 230 | 2009 | $44 | $68 | — |
| GeForce GT 430 | 2010 | $79 | $120 | — |
| GeForce GT 630 | 2012 | $79 | $114 | — |
| GeForce GT 730 | 2014 | $69 | $96 | 34 |
| GeForce GT 1030 | 2018 | $79 | $104 | 72 |
| GeForce GTX 1630 | 2022 | $149 | $169 | — |
Compare with
- Radeon RX 550X · 2018 · $79
- Radeon RX 550 · 2017 · $79
- Radeon RX 550 640SP · 2017 · $79
- Radeon RX 560 · 2017 · $99
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