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NVIDIA Ships Decent DX10 Graphics Card For Under $100

Posted by kdawson on from the stay-out-of-the-uncanny-valley dept.

MojoKid writes "NVIDIA is launching a new mainstream graphics card today, aimed at consumers in the market for a relatively low-cost upgrade from an integrated graphics solution or older entry-level GPU. The new GeForce GT 240 features a GPU with 96 processor cores, 8 ROP units, and 32 texture filtering units. The GPU is manufactured using a 40nm process, features a GDDR5 memory controller (that's also compatible with GDDR3), and unlike NVIDIA's current high-end GPUs, the GT 240 is DirectX 10.1 compatible. For $100 or less, what's perhaps most interesting is that this graphics card actually puts up respectable frame rates with AA turned on and no external power needed beyond what a standard PCIe slot provides."

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  1. Tom's Hardware Link by CannonballHead · · Score: 4, Informative

    I prefer the performance graphs/comparisons at Tom's Hardware.

  2. Re:So, I have a question... by amicusNYCL · · Score: 3, Informative

    If a device can display video at 1080p 24+ frames per second, what's the point of more?

    Displaying a video and rendering a 3d scene are two entirely different things. With a video you don't need textures, bump mapping, or dynamic lighting, you just play the frames.

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  3. Re:how do ati cards at the same price do next to t by jandrese · · Score: 4, Informative

    ATI really doesn't have a card at this price point, which is probably why nVidia came up with this guy, to try to snap up the marketshare on people who have $100 to spend on a video card. Their old product at this price point was discontinued, but the replacement should be out in a couple of months or so.

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  4. Yay! Re-badged 9800GT FTW! by Anonymous+Freak · · Score: 5, Informative

    Come on, nVidia... Stop with the re-branding already.

    This is just a die-shrunk 9800 GT, which was just a die-shrunk 8800 GT.

    Yes, it's a great card for $100. But stop misleading people into thinking it's the same tech as the GTX 260-285.

    (They did the same with the "GTS 250", which is just a re-badged 9800 GTX, which was just a re-badged 8800 GTS.)

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  5. Re:Radeons don't have video acceleration by modemboy · · Score: 3, Informative

    Wrong! But I'll cut ya some slack cause it was only released a few weeks ago:
    http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=amd_xvba_vaapi&num=1

    ATI cards do support video acceleration under linux, although not as nice of an implementation as Nvidia's yet...

  6. They don't? by Mal-2 · · Score: 3, Informative

    This is one generation old (not two) and more than adequate for the casual gamer. It's also under $100. It's also available in AGP, which is why I own one.

    Mal-2

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