A YouTube channel, Budget-Builds Official, purchased a mysterious GeForce RTX 4010 graphics card in China, a model that doesn't officially exist. The video reveals the card's specifications and tests its surprisingly decent performance, considering its ultra-budget nature.
The blogger bought the card for $151, with $50 of that being shipping. The low-profile, single-slot card, manufactured by Shenzhen Bitland, arrived in a PNY-branded box, hinting at its unofficial origins. NVIDIA's database doesn't list this model.
Although CPU-Z couldn't fully identify the card, it did report the following specs:
- 768 shaders
- PCIe 3.0 x16 interface
- 4 GB of GDDR6 memory on a 64-bit bus
- Up to 96 GB/s memory bandwidth
The RTX 4010 appears to be a custom modification of the RTX A400 (a workstation card), compatible only with Chinese drivers (similar to the RTX 4090D). The main difference from the base model is a 200 MHz clock speed increase. In popular games, the RTX 4010 achieved 30 to 60 fps at 1080p. However, ray tracing performance was unsurprisingly poor, reaching only 56 fps at 480p in a ray-traced version of Portal.
Additionally, AV1 encoding didn't work in Half-Life 2 and other Source engine games, requiring OBS for recording with that codec. The reviewer described the card as a budget RTX model that NVIDIA is hesitant to release. The seller stated the card is intended for OEM system builders, not retail sales.
