GeForce GT 430 to Make Its Debut on October 12th
NVIDIA is expected to announce the GF106 based GeForce GTS 450 graphics card on September 13th, and the company has had something else up its sleeve, GeForce GT 430 built with GF108, targeting the entry-level segment.
According to the Donanimhaber forum, the GT 430 is going to be released on October 12th.
If the rumors are true, GeForce GT 430 will feature 96 stream processors, 1GB GDDR3 memory, 128-bit memory interface, and core/memory clock of 700/900MHz respectively.
September 4th, 2010 at 2:47 am
According to the AnandTech review of upcoming Sandybridge the integrated graphics will be as good as the Nvid 430 and 450. I guess that means no more entry level cards and half the mainstream cards will be unnecessary. Lots of regular people who would never consider purchasing separate graphics will be throwing on a game, cool man!
September 4th, 2010 at 11:28 am
I’d agree with you MeanBruce if motherboard makers put a small helping of Vram on the board instead of depending on shared-system RAM like traditional integrated video solutions. Otherwise there is still a market for entry-level dedicated video cards simply because an integrated solution is always going to share system RAM with the CPU.
Maybe if either by architecture or adaptation, if a vendor added more DDR3 channels but dedicated to the GPU instead of sharing with the system, that would be interesting as it can be upgraded to as much capacity as supportable leaving the CPU to do its thing. Another two slots for 128-bit at DDR3-2400Mhz and 2GB installed just for video memory; I’d be interested.