After being the subject of a few leaks quite some time ago, the Nvidia GT 1010 was found listed on Chinese marketplace Tabao for about US$70. The GT 1010 is based on the Pascal GP108 GPU and a look at the leaked 3DMark scores suggests that it trails the GT 1030 based on the same chip by about 40%. Today's low-end desktop GPUs such as the RTX 3050 and the RX 6500 XT are many orders of magnitude faster than this 2017 entry-level GPU.
https://www.notebookcheck.net/Nvidia-GT-1010-now-available-for-US-70-GP108-Pascal-card-40-slower-than-GT-1030-and-93-slower-than-Radeon-RX-6500-XT.596746.0.html
Great! Now systems integrators in my city will have something to upgrade their bottom-tier systems to, lol.
For the record, they still offer systems configured with a GT 710, even though any CPU from the last 6 years or so should offer better performance out of their integrated graphics haha. Gotta make those graphics "dedicated", right?
"The raison d'etre for this card is still not clear"
It's pretty much a GT 710 replacement, it doesn't really take a genius to figure it out. It can be useful for OEMs working with CPUs without integrated graphics for whatever reason (supply?) and it can be used to upgrade/repair old systems that need only a modern video output (or additional video outputs).
This card would be perfect as a dedicated RTX Voice GPU if it were as worthless as it should be (~30-50usd/eur). As someone who has (finally) upgraded from a GTX 1080 to a RX 6800, missed using RTX Voice almost immediately and then stuck an old 750Ti in as a 2nd card just for noise processing with RTX Voice, something low powered (maybe even passive cooled) like this would be perfect.
And no, while it does run on non-RTX cards, it won't work on cards below CUDA compute level 5.0, which translates into 1st gen Maxwell (ie GTX 750/750Ti) at the minimum. Anything Kepler and older (ie the entire rest of the 700 series, including things like the 710 and 730) won't work.
Basically, if it isn't a 750/750Ti, a 950 or faster or anything from the 1000 series, RTX Voice won't work. And the 1030 which would at least fit the "low power, potentially even passive" requirement costs WAY too much for this purpose
Also sorry for bumping this, but this appeared to be the most recent article about the 1010 that I could find
On second thought, not as sorry, considering I'm blocked from using my real name "because it is or contains a reserved name"
This is perfect for old workstations or servers with Xeon processors that has no integrated GPU and PCIe power limited to 25W.