14 DAY TRIAL // As one may or may not know, NVIDIA will soon flood the market, so to speak, with its entry-level Fermi offering, and it seems that Club 3D decided it was time to stop waiting, so it made its own GT 430 video board official.
For those interested in a reminder, Fermi is NVIDIA's architecture which supports DirectX 11 graphics and lies at the heart of all its 400 series adapters.
So far, the Santa Clara, California-based company has delivered video cards for the mainstream level of the market and above, with the GTX 480 standing at the very peak in terms of raw power.
Now, NVIDIA is finally getting around to supplying even the entry-level market with a product, a product which Club 3D has already modeled in its own image.
As the official website shows, Club 3D has already completed its own version of the GeForce GT 430.
This video controller is based on the GF108 graphics processing unit, which lies below the GF106, GF104 and, of course, the mighty and resource-demanding GF100.
The newcomer features 96 CUDA cores, 1 GB of DDR3 VRAM and clock speeds of 700 MHz for the GPU, 1,400 for the shaders and 1,333 MHz for the memory.
There is also a mention of D-Sub, DVI and HDMI outputs and of the fact that the product uses the low profile form factor.
Thus, it will most likely prove most useful when made part of HTPCs (home-theater personal computers).
Other specifications include a single-slot active cooler, a memory interface of 128 bits and support for not just the aforementioned DirectX 11 but OpenGL as well.
Exact pricing details were not revealed, but the most likely price point will be of under $100. A first-hand view of all available information may be found on the official product page.