A dedicated graphics card has its own random access memory (RAM), its own cooling system, and dedicated power regulators, with all components designed specifically for processing video images.

The Graphics Card is responsible for rendering an image to your monitor, and it does this by converting data into a signal your monitor can understand. The better your graphics card the better and smoother an image can be produced.

Major Components of a Graphics Card

• GPU (Graphics Processing Unit) Graphics Processing Unit or commonly known as GPU is the heart of the Graphics Card.
• Memory.
• Internal Interface.
• Heat Sink and Fan.
• Power Connectors (6-pin)
• DVI / HDMI / VGA Ports.

To get the most out of your 4K monitor, your laptop or PC should support a 4K image signal. For gaming in 4K resolution, you need an extra powerful video card and the right cable. These series of video cards (graphics) support a 4K image signal: Intel UHD Graphics (graphics from the eighth generation Intel processors)

GeForce GT 1030 cards are 4K / 2160p / Ultra HD (UHD) capable and already available in the PCI-E 3.0 format from many different manufacturers.

Gt 1030 is not for gaming and won’t really meet the “minimum” or “recommended” system requirements. That said, it will run most games. “What games can I play on x” isn’t a useful question because most hardware, unless it’s truly old, will run most games.

No, the GT 1030 just doesn’t have the power necessary to run at such framerates, even at 1080p low. But it depends on the game, on Minecraft 1080P medium, maybe, but little to no games will run at 120fps to 144fps on a GT 1030, even some modern GPUs can’t handle that. Sure.

Although we might have hoped for better performance in taxing graphics workloads, Nvidia’s GeForce GT 1030 performs admirably in the competitive gaming titles it was designed to service.

PNY – NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 2GB GDDR5 PCI graphics card is a good card for those on a budget, and limited power supply capacity. It only sink about 30 watts of power from your PCIe slot. plus it is also a half height model, which allow for smaller format case.

GeForce 10 (10xx) series

Nvidia is going to re-release discontinued GPUs to alleviate GTX 3080 shortages. Nvidia has been unable to meet the insatiable demand for its latest 30-series graphics cards, so the company has found a temporary solution: it’s bringing back older GPUs, the GTX 1050 Ti and RTX 2060.

We can see that when playing Valorant with a GeForce GT 1030 will return a consistently high 200+ frame rate. In summary, Ultra graphics setting is highly achievable with this GeForce GT 1030 card, but what monitor resolution are you looking to play Valorant at, because you can get 69 FPS at Ultra 4K.