While everyone eagerly awaits the new GeForce RTX video cards 3000 arrive on the market in good numbers and at the prices promised by Nvidia, the US company has quietly expanded the GeForce range with an unexpected novelty: the GeForce GT 1010 , an architecture-based video card Pascal presented five years ago.

The GT 1010 should not have very different features from those from GT 1030

Discovered by chance by youtuber Dapz in the page for downloading the drivers on the Nvidia site and confirmed later by the company’s technical support (even if we are talking about an announced and not yet released card), the GeForce GT 1010 has no gaming aspiration , in fact it is a proposal designed to manage simple 2D-3D loads and, probably, has the task of retiring the GT model 710 based on Kepler architecture.

A card therefore intended for particular uses or simply for those who only need to view the screen and have a CPU without integrated graphics. It is currently unclear whether it will be available only to OEMs or retail, or if the card will arrive worldwide and at what price. The only thing we feel we can say for sure is that it will certainly not go into shortage.

In terms of technical specifications, the GT 1010 is based on the GPU GP 108 that we find on the GT 1030, but with even fewer active cores: 256 unit against 384. The graphics chip (operating at 1228 – 1468 MHz according to Techpowerup) is flanked by 2 GB of GDDR5 memory on bus a 64 bit and has a TDP of 30 W – consequently it does not require any auxiliary PCIe connector for operation.