Darunion
Supreme [H]ardness
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What about if people just want a cheap HTPC card that has HDMI 2.0b (can do 60Hz @4K, etc) and hardware decoding of HEVC/H.265/x265? Does it really matter what kind of ram the card uses as long as it brings the price down? Anything less than a Sandy Bridge CPU will often struggle trying to software decode 4K HEVC/H.265/x265, so buying a card like this can extend the life of an older Core2 or first generation i5/i7 HTPC significantly.
I do feel that it would be better off sold as a GT 1020 or something like that instead.
Because it is marketed as a game ready card and is only $10 cheaper than the 1030 gddr card right next to it but is about 1/3rd the performance. Nvidia typicaly doesnt have such a gap within the same series number. This is the watering down that people are saying. What is to stop them from making a 1080 that is out performed by a 1050 but is slightly cheaper? It is making it more confusing to try and grab sales from the uninformed.