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GT220 40nm silently launched |
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Written by Fuad Abazovic
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Thursday, 09 July 2009 12:50 |
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OEM DirectX
10.1
Just as we said it would happen, in early July Nvidia finally launched its first DirectX 10.1 desktop card and this card is an OEM only card. You should not be able to buy this one in retail, it should be selling only with new PCs.
Nvidia plans retail DirectX 10.1 cards in September time. Geforce GT220 is a 40nm card with 48 shaders, 615MHz core clock, 1335MHz shader clock and 790MHz memory.
It uses 1GB of GDDR3 memory with a 128-bit interface and it can push 25.3MB/s. It comes with VGA, DVI and HDMI out and the most important thing it gets is DirectX 10.1 support, something that ATI has had for two years. This card should be enough for some basic gaming and it would be much better if they used GDDR5 memory or a 256-bit interface with GDDR3 but, at least it should be affordable.
You can check the official specs here.
Also read
Nvidia's GT225, GT220 and GT210 are die shrinks
First retail 40nm from Nvidia is GT 220
Nvidia desktop refresh is DirectX 10.1
Nvidia partners are still not shipping NV216 DX 10.1
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