The GeForce GT240 official debut

Pending renewal of high-end GeForce, NVIDIA gives today officially launched a new benchmark, the GeForce GT240, a low-budget card that will be broken down into GDDR3 or GDDR5 according to the manufacturers. Compatible with DirectX 10.1, the map is engraved in 40 nanometers. The GPU is clocked at 550 MHz, 1360 MHz cons for the 96 shader units it shipped. In RAM, NVIDIA recommends combining the 128 bit interface card in the 1000 MHz GDDR3 or GDDR5 to 1700 MHz, which offer a maximum bandwidth of 54.4 GB / s depending on manufacturer.

In simple format slot, the card ignores the SLI connector. It is in contrast with features of decompression of video material, but also the capacity of general calculations associated with CUDA. Also compatible 3D Vision, the GT240 can be used for physics calculations with PhysX card as extra. In terms of multimedia, we note the inclusion of native HDMI and an audio controller. As for performance, NVIDIA claims that its youngest surpasses the Radeon HD 4670, that we should check in the week. The price finally expected to be below 100 euros.

Among partners, Gigabyte has already started the ball rolling ads with two references equipped with VGA, DVI and HDMI. The first offers 1 GB of GDDR3 memory, while the second set of 512 MB of GDDR5. Here, the Taiwanese manufacturer opts for cooling relatively large, which puts the map in double slot. ECS is also in two models with a card with 512 MB GDDR5 and the other from 1 GB Most manufacturers partner with NVIDIA should also announce a few references to this GT240 in the week.