Based on NVIDIA's Pascal architecture, the Gigabyte GeForce GT 1030 Low Profile Graphics Card provides major improvements in performance, memory bandwidth, and power efficiency over its predecessor, the Maxwell architecture. Its low profile design allows you to install it in compact builds, taking up only a single slot. The front panel of the card features a variety of outputs, such as HDMI 2.0b and DVI-D, allowing you to connect up to two displays. For cooling, Gigabyte implemented a single fan cooler.
CUDA
With CUDA, NVIDIA allows applications to hand off CPU-intensive tasks to the GPU. Your GPU is no longer just used for rendering graphics, but it can provide teraflops of floating point performance and accelerate application tasks, from real-time video rendering to fluid dynamics simulation. CUDA is used in many applications and games.
NVIDIA GPU Boost 3.0
Boosts the card's clock speed in real-time based on the target temperature. If the card is running below the set target temperature, GPU Boost 3.0 will increase the clock speed to improve performance. The target temperature can be reset depending on your preference so you can have the card run more quietly for everyday tasks and older games, and run at full tilt during intense high-resolution gaming sequences.