This weeks marks NVidia’s offering into 40nm silicon with their new GeForce GT 220 and GT210. A good value card, priced at only about $35 and DirectX10.1 compliant, Guru3D has one and puts it through some hoops.
First the value-oriented G210, which will ship with 16 stream processors clocked at 1402 MHz, while the graphics core operates at 590 MHz. It’s armed with 512MB of DDR2 running at 790MHz. The board’s memory interface is just 64-bit, with peak memory bandwidth of 12.6GB/sec. The GT210 cards will supposedly sell for $30-$35 and replace today’s GeForce 9400 in NVIDIA’s lineup.
It’s not going to set any records, but for low-end systems it’s pretty good. Hopefully Nvidia will use it to iron out kinks in 40nm processes and we’ll see more from them soon.
