Two new cards from AMD and one 'new' card from Nvidia.

Posted By: Steve McBarnes - 07:39:26 Tue, October 13, 2009

I was on vacation yesterday (I had the day off from work) so I was kinda surprised to see that I had three new cards to the site today. This morning I got all my work on the HD 5770 and HD 5750 completely done and I setup the GT216 chip, GT 200 series and I created the GT 220 page. Now I am about to start adding the GT 220 cards, reviews, and Newegg links. It's not easy to balance my work on the site with the work I do at my real job, but I do it all for you dear readers.

The shiny Sapphire HD 5750:

11 Comments

Wednesday, October 14, 2009 10:31:05 AM

anonymousD
n00b

so besides slowly going 40nm theres nothing new from nvidia? hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

Thursday, October 15, 2009 2:05:30 AM

McArthur
n00b

The GTS220 is a pretty bad value right now.

It's priced the same as the 4670, but performs notably worse. It should be $10 cheaper.

Thursday, October 15, 2009 11:58:40 AM

em3e3
n00b

Thanks Steve, we appreciate the updates!

Saturday, October 17, 2009 10:23:08 AM

teklord00
n00b

These new low end nVidia cards do not look worth it IMO.

Keep up the good work with the site Steve! I love this website!

Friday, October 30, 2009 3:02:05 PM

anonymousD
n00b

so whats up with nvidia..it doesnt look good atm

Saturday, October 31, 2009 4:32:19 AM

ultima
Senior Member

nope they are trying to fix their new card

having big issues with yields

ATI went through the same thing, back
with the 2900. not an issue with yields
but a bad pin in production. took them
some time to figure it out....nvidia
got a lead on them then as well

Saturday, October 31, 2009 8:03:17 PM

anonymousD
n00b

well i know about the 40nm shortage..but bad pin? hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

Sunday, November 01, 2009 9:54:04 AM

ultima
Senior Member

no no
ati had a bad pin

that as years ago

Friday, November 06, 2009 11:40:22 AM

-RK
Senior Member

The GT220 supports DX10.1 and I don't think Nvidia wanted to make a big deal about it.

Silent launch? Check.

Wednesday, November 11, 2009 4:57:29 PM

Casecutter
Member

Silent... there wasn't anything to talk about unless you consider how the green marketing supplied "talking points" on how to twist sentences' to feed the idea these things where like buying a GTX285/275 or a GTX260... Tom's went as far as saying "What wins on Sunday sell on Monday". These give Nvidia the price/feature position to compete with the year old ATI parts and that's all.
The GT210/220's are base off the GT200 silicon, which didn't prove to be that earth shattering wonderful for original 260/280's or the latter re-spins. Actually for shrinking from the 65Nm of the G96 architecture to a 40Nm these aren't that much better off in power/performance to the older or comparable ATI cards. It's nice they finally got to providing Dx10.1/HDMI support; although even that foregoes the on board audio chip ATI employs so Nvidia has less cost involved.
Has any review site actually ran a GT210 against a 4350 apples to apples... I mean it's not a big expensive thing, and please not gaming! I'm talking video decording, playback, CPU usage, power and heat more of those task and concerns for HTPC duty. Maybe they'll wait for Cedar/Redwood release then mop up!

Tuesday, November 17, 2009 9:40:26 PM

Tofuman88
n00b

So this is interesting, but has anyone seen the new GT 240 from nvidia? Palit put one out on Newegg and I just saw it's in a GDDR5 flavor. This is news to me, possibly one of you guys higher up has seen it before? Here's a link to it. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814261056
It reminds me of the 4770 honestly.

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