Do people not mine with GT 710s or 1030s? (Nvidia) Is it not profitable? Or do they just go for better cards?
Do not buy video cards worse than 1050ti.
1030 may be good for mining in theory, but in practice I have not seen these video cards in mining, because they have very poor cooling. I think that they are not designed for mining, they give very little profit and a small amount of coins can be mined on these video cards.
Gt1030 have different variants mate, the PNY version has very tiny fan on them that's why the have bad cooling but the maxsun and some few others have big fan on them and they cool very well, anyways this card is not that profitable for mining so it's a bad choice
Even if this video card has good cooling, then it is suitable for assembling mining farms from a very small profit. Because the profit from 1 video card RTX 3080 will be more than the profit from 10 video cards 1030. If these video cards get free, then it is profitable.
And if you have one video card, it is not profitable to mine because of the very low profit.