Nvidia will launch the Geforce GT 240 in roughly two weeks time, and we've finally got a rough idea of what to expect from the new mainstream Geforce. Bear in mind that the spec is still far from official, so some numbers could be a bit off.

As we said earlier, GT 240 is not a Fermi based design. It is based around Nvidia's 40nm GT 215 core with Direct X10.1 and Shader Model 4.1 support. The reference core clock seems to be a rather unimpressive 550MHz, which is somewhat lower than expected. The GT 215 packs 96 stream processors clocked at 1340MHz and 32 texture units. It also supports PhysX, which might make it an interesting choice for a dedicated physics card.

It uses a 128-bit memory bus and it will ship with 512MB of 1GB of GDDR3 memory clocked at 850MHz or 900MHz. There's also a chance that a GDDR5 version will be available, but we're still unable to confirm its existence.

We still don't know the MSRP, but as we're expecting the GT 240 to replace Nvidia's venerable 9600 series, we're probably looking at the €50 to €70 range, depending on the SKU.