This hardware generation has been full of questionably labelled hardware from both sides of the market. First, there was Nvidia's vastly different 3GB and 6GB GTX 1060 models (the 3GB version has a significant drop in CUDA cores) and more recently AMD's use of the RX 560 name for both 14 and 16 CU versions of their Polaris 21 GPUs.Now another GPU gets added into the mix with the introduction of GT 1030 GPUs that use a DDR4 memory buffer, dropping the memory bandwidth of the GPU from 48GB/s to 16GB/s. This change equates to a drop in memory bandwidth of 66.6%. Tom's Hardware uncovered the change upon the discovery of Gigabyte's GT 1030 2GD4 LP OC, where the 2GD4 signifies the use of DDR4 memory. Upon further research, Palit was also found to make GT 1030 GPUs with a DDR4 frame buffer, though the model in question did not mention the use of DDR4 memory in its model name.Without dedicated testing, it is hard to know how much of a performance impact this downgrade would have on the GT 1030's performance, though it is worth noting that the GT 1030's memory configuration is equivalent to a single-channel memory configuration on a desktop CPU (64-bit). To be honest, it is hard not to see this having a negative impact on the gaming performance of the GT 1030, as we have seen AMD's APUs suffer in this regard with over two times the memory bandwidth, albeit shared between a CPU and GPU.