NVIDIA Ships Decent DX10 Graphics Card For Under $100

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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Tom's Hardware Link

[CannonballHead]

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

Re:how do ati cards at the same price do next to t

[jandrese]

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.

Yay! Re-badged 9800GT FTW!

[Anonymous Freak]

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.)