View Full Version : Nvidia GT218 Card & Specs Surfaced
nekrosoft13
02-04-09, 04:54 PM
VR-Zone managed to score a GT218 card drawing which should give us an idea how the actual card might look like. Nvidia is working on the entry level GT218 cards currently and we will probably see some samples during CeBIT in March and a launch in April. GT218 is the first 40nm based GPU from Nvidia and there are at least 4 SKUs on different PCB designs.
The card we are looking at right now is based on the P692 PCB design codenamed D10M1-30. The core is clocked at 550MHz and shader clock at 1375MHz. The card comes with 512MB of DDR3 memories onboard clocked at 800MHz on 64-bit memory interface. The number of shader processors is not revealed at this moment. The card supports Dual Link DVI, DisplayPort, VGA etc.
http://resources.vr-zone.com//uploads/6529/GT218_P692_1.gif
http://vr-zone.com/articles/nvidia-gt218-card--specs-surfaced/6529.html?doc=6529
XMAN52373
02-04-09, 06:42 PM
VR-Zone managed to score a GT218 card drawing which should give us an idea how the actual card might look like. Nvidia is working on the entry level GT218 cards currently and we will probably see some samples during CeBIT in March and a launch in April. GT218 is the first 40nm based GPU from Nvidia and there are at least 4 SKUs on different PCB designs.
The card we are looking at right now is based on the P692 PCB design codenamed D10M1-30. The core is clocked at 550MHz and shader clock at 1375MHz. The card comes with 512MB of DDR3 memories onboard clocked at 800MHz on 64-bit memory interface. The number of shader processors is not revealed at this moment. The card supports Dual Link DVI, DisplayPort, VGA etc.
http://resources.vr-zone.com//uploads/6529/GT218_P692_1.gif
http://vr-zone.com/articles/nvidia-gt218-card--specs-surfaced/6529.html?doc=6529
You know, it'll be nice if and when ATI and NV leave the ****ing 64bit interface off their god damned low end cards so they can atleast play something new at respecable speeds.
You know, it'll be nice if and when ATI and NV leave the ****ing 64bit interface off their god damned low end cards so they can atleast play something new at respecable speeds.
No doubt the memory bus is the biggest bottleneck. This thing doesn't even have a quarter of the memory bandwidth of a 4850.
walterman
02-05-09, 09:22 AM
The most expensive parts on a gfx card are the PCB & the memory chips.
Dreamingawake
02-06-09, 03:14 AM
what a fricken waste !!! AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
seriously why even bother making a card like this ?
in the end it just creates more problems than it's worth.
Runningman
02-06-09, 05:08 PM
You know, it'll be nice if and when ATI and NV leave the ****ing 64bit interface off their god damned low end cards so they can atleast play something new at respecable speeds.
Why would grandma need more then a 64bit memory interface? I too think it would be kinda cool to play crisys and head to head COD4 with her but she just cant seem to master the whole mouse and keyboard thing.
methimpikehoses
02-06-09, 06:10 PM
Thinking of my grandma playing or EVEN seeing Crysis or Cod4 makes me lol a little bit.
OT: DDR3 Again?!
Thinking of my grandma playing or EVEN seeing Crysis or Cod4 makes me lol a little bit.
OT: DDR3 Again?!
Must be for marketing cause that 64 bit interface sure wouldn't take advantage of DDR3.
XMAN52373
02-06-09, 07:04 PM
Why would grandma need more then a 64bit memory interface? I too think it would be kinda cool to play crisys and head to head COD4 with her but she just cant seem to master the whole mouse and keyboard thing.
How about for people who go to buy a card for gaming and are told it will do the job. While that may be the case, but the job it'll do will be a joke.
CaptNKILL
02-06-09, 07:39 PM
How about for people who go to buy a card for gaming and are told it will do the job. While that may be the case, but the job it'll do will be a joke.
Yep.
Super-low-end cards like this are part of the reason that you can go to wal-mart and spend $900 on a new PC and $125 on a graphics card and still not be able to play any recent games.
methimpikehoses
02-06-09, 07:51 PM
Yep.
Super-low-end cards like this are part of the reason that you can go to wal-mart and spend $900 on a new PC and $125 on a graphics card and still not be able to play any recent games.
http://img151.imageshack.us/img151/7678/cds005we6.jpg
josiahsuarez
02-08-09, 11:55 PM
How about for people who go to buy a card for gaming and are told it will do the job. While that may be the case, but the job it'll do will be a joke.
there is a market for $30 video cards. but you get what you pay for.
Runningman
02-09-09, 02:22 AM
How about for people who go to buy a card for gaming and are told it will do the job. While that may be the case, but the job it'll do will be a joke.
can you show me a single example within the last year that a card with a 64 bit interface was sold as a gaming card?
XMAN52373
02-09-09, 12:20 PM
can you show me a single example within the last year that a card with a 64 bit interface was sold as a gaming card?
You've obviously never listened to BB sales people. The BB where I live, they do it all the damn time.
Runningman
02-09-09, 01:34 PM
You've obviously never listened to BB sales people. The BB where I live, they do it all the damn time.
should have been more explicit, show me a card that has a 64bit interface that is advertised as a gaming card.
XMAN52373
02-09-09, 08:29 PM
should have been more explicit, show me a card that has a 64bit interface that is advertised as a gaming card.
You dont look/pay to close attention to video card boxes either do you? Every single lowend card box shows gaming benches. VisionTek, XFX, eVGA, BFG, Diamond, they all do it.
Non-gaming (low end) cards don't need 512mb of RAM either.
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