NVIDIA launches GeForce 210 and GeForce GT220 graphics boards
We've waited a long, long, long time for NVIDIA's GT200 architecture to filter down beyond the high-end on the desktop, but today it's finally happened, with the launch of the GeForce 210 and GeForce GT220 as a pair of budget-oriented graphics boards.آ These two parts make use of NVIDIA's new GT218 and GT216 cores respectively, which come complete with support for DirectX 10.1 while being manufactured using a 40 nanometre process.آ A few sites have more on the launch, and check out the performance of these parts.
Sadly, first impressions are not promising because the GeForce GT 220 packs only 48 CUDA cores (aka stream processors). In comparison, a 'mid-range' GeForce GTX 260 packs 216 CUDA cores, giving us the indication that the GT 220 is probably going to be really low-end. In fact as a rough gauge, the GT 220 would rank between a GeForce 9500 GT and a 9600 GT model going by the number of stream processors equipped in them. And our suspicions were confirmed when we noticed that the two GT 220 cards that landed in our labs didn't require power connectors - a trait common in most low-end cards. Thankfully, the GT 220 brings about full DirectX 10.1, PhysX and CUDA support.
The GeForce 210, previously known as GT218, sports 16 shader processors that each run at 1404 MHz.آ The core of the GPU is running at 589 MHz; all of these are respectable clock speeds for the GT200 architecture but obviously going from 240 SPs on the GTX 285 to 16 on the GeForce 210 is going to result in significant performance drops.آ It includes 512MB of DDR2 memory on a 64-bit memory bus.
The GeForce GT 220 (GT216) is a significant boost up in performance with 3x the shaders of the GF 210 that run at 1360 MHz while the GPU core runs at 625 MHz.آ The memory runs at the same speed (800 MHz) DDR2 though our test sample has 1GB rather than 512MB on a 128-bit memory bus.
The GeForce GT 220 (GT216) is a significant boost up in performance with 3x the shaders of the GF 210 that run at 1360 MHz while the GPU core runs at 625 MHz.آ The memory runs at the same speed (800 MHz) DDR2 though our test sample has 1GB rather than 512MB on a 128-bit memory bus.
Enter Nvidia's new GeForce 210- and GT 220-based discrete graphics cards. While these models aren't intended to represent the cutting edge of performance, they do represent some important hallmarks for Nvidia. Mainly, these are the first Nvidia GPUs to use TSMC's 40nm process and sport DirectX 10.1 support. Could this be foreshadowing of die-shrinks to come in the next couple of month? That'd likely be a very fair assessment.
You might also notice that these are Nvidia's first sub-$100 GPUs to migrate to the GT200 family's naming convention. Let's have a closer look at what they actually contain.
You might also notice that these are Nvidia's first sub-$100 GPUs to migrate to the GT200 family's naming convention. Let's have a closer look at what they actually contain.
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