The first GeForce to 40 nanometers should have shown more or less simultaneously with the RV740.Recall that AMD launched its ATI Radeon HD 4770 April 28 last, although we can not say that the availability was good at the time, TSMC's fault. Today, NVIDIA seems indeed to point out its first graphics operator GPU etched 40 nm. As was announced some time ago, these are the G210 and GT GeForce 220 card does not really playing in the same class as the Radeon HD 5770 and 5750 announced for 13.

The GPU of the first is called GT218, while the second adopts a GT216. Both chips are etched in 40 nm TSMC, and provide respectively 16 and 48 stream processors. In both cases, support for DirectX 10.1 (Shader Model 4.1) and OpenGL 3.2 is ensured. For cons, the PhysX is limited to the GeForce GT 220.The memory bus of the GeForce G210 will be 64-bit host either DDR2 or DDR3 for. The GT 220 rises through the ranks with a bus 128 bits wide and DDR3 or GDDR3. Consumption is less than 10 watts in idle and 30 watts reached over for the G210 and 60 watts on the GT 220.

The frequencies would be 625/1360/790 MHz (1GB DDR3) or 625/1360/1012 MHz (512 MB GDDR3) for the GeForce GT 220. The GeForce G210 would be satisfied with a core at 589 MHz, shaders at 1402 MHz and a memory 500 (512 MB DDR2) or 790 MHz (512 MB DDR3). Graphics cards NVIDIA exploiting this design will probably single slot, with the triptych of VGA / DVI / HDMI while DisplayPort is supported.

This will obviously overclocked. The GeForce GT 220 has 1024 MB of GDDR3. It is sold around 70-80 according to our colleague. The GeForce G210 would in turn offer between 35 and 45 euros. Expected Release, October 12...