ASUS Launches An Old GPU: The NVIDIA GT 710 with Four 4K HDMI Ports
by Dr. Ian Cutress on April 13, 2020 9:30 AM EST
I've noticed of late that certain companies are 'relaunching' older parts in new designs. We've seen it recently with some of the older AMD APUs finding their way into new motherboard designs, but here it's a case of a base GPU returning to the market. ASUS has listed on its website a 'new' GT 710: this is a super low end graphics chip with 192 CUDA cores on the 87 mm2 GK208 Kepler die that originally launched in late 2015 / early 2016. The goal of this sort of graphics card us to supply basic video outputs to machines that do not come with any integrated graphics on the processor.
What's different about this card, which comes with 2 GB of GDDR5 memory, is that it has four HDMI video outputs. On a modern graphics card you might expect a DisplayPort or two, but here it's all just HDMI. Despite the GK208 GPU not supporting HDMI 2.0 natively, this is the sort of card that is going to take advantage of NVIDIA opening up 4K60 with 4:2:0 subchroma sampling support on Kepler, which makes it useful for video at the most (you won't want to be running a full desktop experience with it).
ASUS states that the card can support 4K60 in this mode when one monitor is attached, or 4K30 when multiple displays are attached. Obviously with this horsepower we're not going to be doing any gaming - it's simply at the cheap end of the spectrum for office machines or library machines or similar. ASUS suggests using multiple cards at once for anyone that needs 12-16+ displays.
This card uses a PCIe 2.0 x1 connection, ensuring compatibility for a wide range of older machines, and offers a 954 MHz engine clock and a 5000 MHz memory clock. The GT710-4H-SL-2GD5 is expected to be in the ~$50 range when it comes to market.
Source: FanlessTech, ASUS
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evilspoons - Monday, April 13, 2020 - link
I've had a Kepler (GK208) DDR3 GT 730 for a few years now. It doesn't have the oomph to power 1080p60, much less 4K60 with lower specs. It does, however, do 1080p30 @ 4:4:4 nicely and reliably.For static display I guess it's fine.
spaceship9876 - Monday, April 13, 2020 - link
I wish amd would launch a new low end gpu copying the integrated gpu on their entry level APU's and sticking it on a die. That way people could have a low power gpu that supports the latest video formats and hdmi/dp standards and it would use little power.thorski - Monday, April 13, 2020 - link
Its an interesting proposition for a few niche markets. One not mentioned is h264 transcoding, which on a silent PCIe x1 card is actually useful in a few scenarios I have where racking a ATX board with 7 of these would be good.. The problem is the Quadro P400 or P600 with their 3 or 4 x mini DP out that you can dongle to HDMI are not much more and support h265.Oxford Guy - Tuesday, April 14, 2020 - link
The miserable 8400 GS, the GPU that refuses to die, is still being sold. On Amazon, for example, you can pick one up for $55-150.Microcenter is also selling it, still. In 2020. With a limit of 1 per household. (I suppose the shame of having more than one is too much.)
lagittaja - Thursday, April 16, 2020 - link
Cool. Perhaps in a couple or few years 14nm will be cheap enough for something like this to be made but with GP108 instead.Gunbuster - Saturday, April 18, 2020 - link
Made the meat of it low pro and then failed with the IO breakout. Would have been a winner in many of the small form factor boxes business love to buy.RSAUser - Sunday, April 19, 2020 - link
If one has a ton of monitors, wouldn't it be easier to set up a DP MST instead? Or is this just an attempt at making it as cheap as possible? 4 DP hubs are a bit more costly as well, but seem like a possible solution.KrishnaKale - Monday, April 20, 2020 - link
LOL, there are limited monitors which support DP MST and these monitors are also relatively costly than the peers.rtrski - Monday, April 20, 2020 - link
I've been looking at a custom case build with a couple small monitors in / on the case front, just for 'fun' (Stat monitoring, Rainmeter gauges, eye candy like that). Small 800x480 rez LCDs with HDMI inputs are $30-60. But with one real monitor (DP) and a VR headset too, I'm running short of inputs. Something like this would be perfect to drive those and not add a lot of overhead. Also don't want to tie up a USB-C port...spurblade - Wednesday, August 18, 2021 - link
Where can I buy this ?