The recommended retail price is of £59.99 / $59.99 / €59.99

Jun 19, 2014 06:59 GMT  ·  By

The GeForce GT 730 low-end graphics card was released by NVIDIA yesterday, and its OEMs (original equipment manufacturers) were quick to contribute their own versions. The price was mostly skirted around though.

Now, however, we finally know what it is, at least in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland: £59.99. That's the sum that PNY's GeForce GT 730 ships for, at any rate.

Exchange rates say that £59.99 is the equivalent of $102 and €75, but there's something we should really take into account here: exchange rates usually don't matter at all for prices.

Another thing is that the prices in the UK are usually the highest when compared to the money needed to buy the same product in the US and Europe.

By that logic, the prices in the United States and the European Union are of $59.99 and €59.99, respectively. It would fit with the promise that the entry-level adapter has a low price in the double digits.

Besides, NVIDIA and its partners can't afford to demand too much money in exchange for a card that is barely better than the integrated GPUs in Intel CPUs and AMD APUs.

The PNY GeForce GT 730, like every other GT 730 out there, has DDR3 memory running at 1.8 GHz, a 64-bit interface, and support for the PCI Express 3.0 x8 interfaces.

The GPU clock is a bit weird, however. The GK107 graphics processing unit on NVIDIA's reference board, 384 CUDA cores and all, is rated at 908 MHz, but PNY's runs at 902 MHz.

It's also worth mentioning that PNY didn't go crazy with memory options. Instead of releasing 1 GB, 2 GB, 3 GB and/or 4 GB models (making it clear that the cards are just means to digest leftover DDR3 DRAM inventories), only a 1 GB GT 730 is up for order.

Finally, the PNY GeForce GT 730 connects to monitors, television sets, smart television sets and professional displays via DVI, HDMI and VGA ports. All in all, it should increase photo editing speed by 9 times and video editing by a factor of 8 compared to integrated graphics (Intel ones anyhow).

We're not sure what sales chances to give the fanless PNY GeForce GT 730, or any other GT 730 really. It's probably weaker than most integrated AMD APU GPUs, and it won't be used for much besides web browsing and basic PC operation on Intel PCs, so the video/photo editing advantages don't matter much. Still, some HTPCs and mini business desktops based on Intel Bay Trail CPUs could benefit from it.