With PCI Express x1 ,Sparkle Unveils GeForce 210/GT220/GT240
Recently Sparkle, the professional VGA card manufacturer and supplier, unveils GeForce 210,GeForce GT 220 and GeForce GT 240 PCI Express*1 graphics cards.
They feature core clock of 589MHz,625MHz,550MHz respectively. As for memory interface, Geforce 210 is 64-bit,while GeForce GT 220 and GeForce GT 240 are both 128-bit.In addition, stream processors clock to 1402MHz,1360MHz and 1340MHz respectively. Moreover, they support HDMI, CRT as well as DVI outputs.
So far their launch date and price are still unknown, for more information, please click the press release page.
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September 2nd, 2010 at 6:43 pm
Wao. Can Expreview benchmark the difference between 1x to 16x in game and apps?
September 4th, 2010 at 11:46 am
Tomshardware and Techpowerups have done scaling analysis’ of PCIe 2.0 with both GTX400 and HD5000 cards from x1, x4, x8 and x16. If Expreview did a test, they wouldn’t be able to show a major difference, but its important to know how or why this was the case, not just that it was.
For example, if we assume that in these articles they claim even the higher-end GTX480 doesn’t take more than an average 5% hit in x8 versus x16 in real world gaming, then we can extrapolate that a single x1 lane can take a GPU with around 70-shaders also running at 1400Mhz. But the 96-shaders in Sparkle’s GT240 are running at 1340Mhz, so we could say a significant PCIe lane bottleneck is occuring.
We could reverse this analysis and claim that Sparkle has done their homework, that 96 CUDA cores at 1340Mhz doesn’t take a hit in real-word apps in a single PCIe 2.0 lane. This would explain why a GTX480 doesn’t take much of a hit in x8, as the full 16 lane slot could take a graphics card with a total of almost 1500 CUDA cores, if such a card was built.
Both are equally unlikely IMO, though I think the real situation is in between these two.
Chances are, Sparkle is filling a demand of customers wanting more performance in the same or lower power envelope as currently available x1 cards; even if the performance hit is significant, its be better than what’s available in x1 which is more than a generation behind.
Remember, these products aren’t catered to folks who would otherwise get the full x16 version, they are catered to those who are only interested in x1 options.
September 4th, 2010 at 10:02 pm
I am sure glad we have a resident professor here at Expreview cuz I like this guy! Mr. Lehpron should be designing the next Intel and ATI platforms, and let’s not forget the next ASUS Rampage 4 Extreme, let’s get some VRAM on that baby. ASUS is already experimenting placing an ATI VPU directly on the next Rampage Mainboard then a vertical heatsink fan would be possible, oh how mind wanders!
September 4th, 2010 at 11:35 pm
These are probably made for PhysX so ppl who have only one 16x slot with AMD Radeon could use these cheap cards to do the PhysX. That’s all.
April 15th, 2011 at 2:43 pm
your blog.