Published: Monday 12th October, 2009 | Author: Parm Mann
Companies: NVIDIA (All NVIDIA content)
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email to a friendFollowing an OEM-only launch back in July, NVIDIA has today taken its GT200 architecture to the mainstream with the retail launch of its GeForce G210 and GeForce GT220 graphics cards.
The cards, pictured below, are essentially trimmed-down versions of the GT200 architecture and make use of a 40nm GT21x GPU that offers a little less of everything.
The GeForce G210, pictured above, features a GPU clocked at 589MHz, just 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 gigabyte of DDR3 memory operating at 790MHz via a 128-bit interface.
Both products are NVIDIA's first desktop solutions to offer support for DirectX 10.1 and Shader Model 4.1, and the GeForce GT220 throws in an on-board audio controller facilitating 7.1 digital surround sound via HDMI.
With rival GPU manufacturer AMD now boasting DirectX 11 solutions, NVIDIA doesn't have a whole lot to shout about, but its entry-level G210 and GT220 may finally bring an end to the GeForce 9500s and GeForce 9600s of old. As expected, many of NVIDIA's partners are touting the cards as ideal HTPC solutions, with the likes of ECS bringing passive solutions to market on launch day.
We're still awaiting UK listings of the products, but U.S. retailer Newegg.com has the GeForce G210 priced at $44.99 and the GeForce GT220 at $69.99. That's roughly £30 and £45, respectively, excluding local taxes.
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Interesting.. but so bloody slow for any modernish games.
Hmm, dunno about that. The GT220 has 50% more cores than the 9500GT, so should perform somewhere between that and a 9600GT - that should make it a reasonable bet for casual gaming at 1280 x 1024 with low to moderate IQ. It'd be interesting to see it benchmarked against those two and the 4650 / 4670. It certainly makes a reasonable case for being in my next office machine upgrade, particularly since it seems to come in low profile by default :)
edit: but of course, despite the reference design being low profile, can I find a low profile one on etail?! ;)Quote
Hmm, dunno about that. The GT220 has 50% more cores than the 9500GT, so should perform somewhere between that and a 9600GT - that should make it a reasonable bet for casual gaming at 1280 x 1024 with low to moderate IQ. It'd be interesting to see it benchmarked against those two and the 4650 / 4670. It certainly makes a reasonable case for being in my next office machine upgrade, particularly since it seems to come in low profile by default :)
edit: but of course, despite the reference design being low profile, can I find a low profile one on etail?! ;)
It doesn't seem completely awful for casual gaming and moderate levels, though as I recall, the 4670 beats it pretty evenly on most things except power, temperature, and noise, which you'd expect from the 40nm technology. The pricing could do with being a little lower to make it compete.
Anandtech and Tomshardware have some numbers. Hang on...
http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=3657
http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/geforce-gt-220,review-31703.html
Scan have this for pre-order - http://www.scan.co.uk/Product.aspx?WebProductId=1084439Quote
Now I have the dilema of wait (due to a lack of lead time's on the silent cards) or pick up and XFX/Asus card now and hope they're relatively quiet...Quote
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