14 DAY TRIAL // The Santa Clara, California-based NVIDIA has recently updated its GeForce offering with the introduction of two new low-end graphics cards, the GeForce G210 and GT 220. The chip maker's new solutions are based on the previously rumored GT218 and GT215 chips, both of which will provide NVIDIA fans with support for Microsoft's DirectX 10.1 and OpenGL 3.0 APIs, as well as two new desktop cards built using 40nm-based GPUs.
According to the available specifications, the new cards should provide a low-level of performance, comparable to the company's current GeForce 9400 and 9500 GPUs. Kicking off with the GT218-based GeForce G210 graphics accelerator, PC users should expect a card with 16 Stream Processors, 512MB of 64-bit DDR2 memory and GPU, Shaders and memory clock speeds of 589MHz, 1402MHz and 1000MHz, respectively. This model is expected to deliver a performance similar to that of the GeForce 9400M GPU, but provide users with support for Microsoft's DirectX 10.1 and OpenGL 3.0.
Coming to deliver a boost in performance, the new GeForce GT 220 will be equipped with 48 Stream processors and 1GB of GDDR3 memory on a 128-bit interface. Also designed to support the aforementioned APIs, the new GT 220 will be clocked at 615MHz, 1335MHz and 1580MHz for the GPU, Shaders and memory, respectively.
Both cards will be based on a PCI-Express 2.0 interface and will also provide users with some of NVIDIA's own technology, including the support for PhysX and CUDA applications. Both will offer users three connectivity options, with the G210 featuring a DisplayPort, VGA and DVI, while the other one boasting DVI, HDMI and VGA.
The cards will be designed using TSMC's 40nm chips and will only be available to OEMs, mainly due to TSMC's issues with supplying the new 40nm chips.
