14 DAY TRIAL // There have been many releases of high end video card lately, but this left the entry-level market hanging, more or less, so Lantic decided to remedy this by revealing a new adapter with more memory than usual.
For those that do not remember, NVIDIA has, so far, released only the GeForce GTX 580 and the GTX 570 from the 500 Series.
Granted, the GeForce GTX 560, aimed at the performance segment (higher half of the mainstream) is also on the way.
Nevertheless, the bulk of the consumer base, as well as the entry-level segment, has to make do with the GeForce 400 cards or buy and AMD model.
In order to address the needs of those users who do not have overly vast financial resources, Lantic has now delivered a new GT 430.
This particular model has not been very well detailed, except for the fact that there will be 2 GB of DDR3 memory on it.
This will definitely add some smoothness to 2D and 3D rendering, although it is still unclear just how much a price premium this upgrade will entail.
“The size of the memory is always most important for a video card, so obviously, video cards with a large memory capacity can bring faster processing speed for our computers,” says the press release.
The photo provided by the company makes plain that D-Sub, DVI and HDMI outputs are present, as well as a single-fan cooler.
That said, end-users will have to wait until shipments begin before they can finally learn just what operating clock speeds the GPU, shaders and memory feature.
Of course, they may very well not differ from the stock settings that NVIDIA's original adapter was designed with.
For those in need of a reminder, the stock graphics processor works at 700 MHz, while the CUDA cores and DDR3 are set at 1,600 MHz and 1,800 MHz, respectively.