Remember back in July when NVIDIA quietly rolled out its first 40nm desktop GPUs in the form of the GeForce G210 and the GeForce GT220? Well, the DirectX 10.1-touting parts have been available for some time as OEM-only products, but rumours are now suggesting that the cards will be brought to retail as standalone solutions, too.
According to Chinese newspaper Digitimes, industry sources have suggested that the cards will become available in the retail channel this October.
The GeForce G210, pictured above, features a GPU clocked at 589MHz, 16 processor cores clocked at 1,402MHz and 512MB of DDR2 memory clocked at 500MHz, connected via a 64-bit interface.
The quicker GeForce GT220, meanwhile, features a GPU clocked at 615MHz, 48 processor cores running at 1,335MHz and a whole gigabyte of DDR3 memory operating at 790MHz via a 128-bit interface.
What's interesting is that Digitimes suggests that NVIDIA's desktop product line will also undergo another rebranding exercise. According to reports, the graphics giant is opting to do away with certain elements of its product names such as GTX, GT and G, leaving products labelled by just the word GeForce and a number. Should that be the case, we'll be looking at the above cards branded as the GeForce 210 and GeForce 220. Looking ahead, we'd then expect to see the upcoming GT300 parts arrive in Q4 productised simply as GeForce 3##.
