14 DAY TRIAL // It isn't often that the full set of information is leaked for an unavailable piece of hardware, especially one that has not even been announced yet, but this is exactly what happened to a certain NVIDIA graphics adapter.
As consumers know, NVIDIA has been selling GeForce 500 series cards for several months now, this being the newest set of DirectX 11-ready video controllers to leave its labs.
So far, there exist high-end models and some mainstream ones, but the lower half of the mid-end and the entry level market are mostly bereft of their own 500 series cards.
Granted, the Santa Clara, California-based outfit does have model for budget-conscious customers, like the GeForce GT 530.
Still, so far, no 500 model has been announced, but it seems a certain add-in board makers known as AFOX didn't let this little detail slow it down.
In what is probably one of the most intriguing bypasses of NDA in recent history, the company practically published nearly all details on the GeForce GT 530 graphics controller.
With a price expected to be of around $100, the unannounced piece of technology will be a younger sibling to the likes of the GTX 550 Ti.
It is not clear whether the memory amount (DDR3 to be more precise) will be 1 GB or 2 GB, but what is made plain is the clock speed of 1,333 MHz (2,666 MHz DDR).
Speaking of clock speed, the GPU (graphics processing unit) will operate at 750 MHz, while the unknown number of CUDA cores will be set at 1,500 MHz.
Finally, the card boasts a memory interface of 128 bits, lacks SLI (no multi-GPU setups are possible) and has a single-fan cooler, plus DVI, D-Sub and HDMI ports.
All that remains is to wait and see just when NVIDIA plans to actually unveil this particular electronics component.