More details on nVidia's 40nm G210 and GT220

nVidia officially launched its first 40nm notebook graphics cards in June already, but it will not be till August that the mass production at TSMC is initiated and the first notebooks can be equipped with the chips. In the meantime, nVidia is working on 40nm chips for the desktop graphics cards, in the form of the GT218 and GT216 GPUs. Both models are to be positioned in the budget segment and will be the successors of the GeForce 9 entry models.

VR-Zone has acquired a GPU-Z screenshot of both the GT218 and GT216 graphics cards, which will eventually be sold as the GeForce G210 and GT220. The G210 will feature 24 shaderunits, a 64-bits memory interface and 512MB of DDR2 or GDDR3 memory. This lowbudget card will cost about $30 to $35 USD and is to replace the GeForce 9400.

GeForce GT218  recognized by GPU-Z

The GT 220 shows more potential; the card sports 48 shaderunits and will be equipped with a 128-bits memory interface. Despite these improvements, the card will still be intended for the lower market segment. This model will be equipped with 1 GB of memory and is to surpass the performance of the GeForce 9500GT. It's expected that nVidia's first 40nm desktop graphics cards will be released by October, later this year. The overview below shows more detailed specifications on both of nVidia's new 40nm GPUs.

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