NVIDIA tries to breath life into GT200 again
Introduction
Today NVIDIA is releasing a set of products in a near silent fashion - this isn't a release that tends to get a lot of attention. And even though the idea of NVIDIA finally getting around to selling 40nm GPUs to the enthusiast is exciting, the GeForce 210 and GT 220 are really not targeted to that segment of users. Instead you'll find that NVIDIA's latest offering falls into the sub-$100 pricing and obviously will lack a lot of the performance of the GT200-series that we are used to seeing.
What we are curious to understand is how well the two new GPUs compete against the AMD offerings at similar price points in terms of basic gaming performance and feature sets.
The GeForce 210 and GT 220 GPUs
If you remember not too long ago, NVIDIA announced its very first set of 40nm GPUs for the mobile space: the GeForce 200M back in June. Those GPUs and the ones being released for the desktop market today are essentially identical in features.
Not only are the GeForce 210 and GT 220 the first NVIDIA graphics cards built on TSMC's 40nm process technology, they are also the first to support the DirectX 10.1 standard that was included with AMD's 4000-series of GPUs last year. NVIDIA has been slowly backing off of its push against DX10.1 as "unnecessary" and has moved that bus onto the world of DX11 - which AMD's new 5000-series of parts supports.
One thing you will NOT find on these low end parts is GDDR5 support - something we were surprised to see on the mobile versions of these GPUs this summer. While that would potentially increase performance, quite frankly the lack of raw processing power on these GPUs negated the need for higher bandwidth memory.
The GeForce 210 and GT 220 also are the first offerings from NVIDIA to include support for the HDMI 1.3a standard that includes uncompressed 7.1 channel audio (commonly called Blu-ray audio). The GPUs here support audio bypass; you will still need an audio solution (either on your motherboard or on a discrete card) that supports 7.1 channel audio and correct software as well.
As we will see in our card break down on the next page, the 40nm GPUs from NVIDIA are tiny, especially compared to any other GT200-based design. If TSMC can continue to improve their 40nm process, which we are really hoping for as the next-generation of parts from both AMD and NVIDIA reach us, then that should mean better performance and lower power for these budget cards.
Galaxy is one of the largest NVIDIA partners and a company that not many enthusiasts are familiar with; but you soon will be. Though they are mainly making names for themselves on the low-end and mid-range offerings, the company will soon be taking their engineering expertise beyond it into the high end with Fermi.
The GeForce 210, previously known as GT218, sports 16 shader processors that each run at 1404 MHz. The core of the GPU is running at 589 MHz; all of these are respectable clock speeds for the GT200 architecture but obviously going from 240 SPs on the GTX 285 to 16 on the GeForce 210 is going to result in significant performance drops. It includes 512MB of DDR2 memory on a 64-bit memory bus.
The GeForce GT 220 (GT216) is a significant boost up in performance with 3x the shaders of the GF 210 that run at 1360 MHz while the GPU core runs at 625 MHz. The memory runs at the same speed (800 MHz) DDR2 though our test sample has 1GB rather than 512MB on a 128-bit memory bus.
In terms of product placement, NVIDIA claims that the GeForce 210 and GT 220 fit right around the 9500 GT/9600 GT segment of the market. What is most confusing to me is that NVIDIA hasn't said that the 9000-series has been EOL'd and it is likely we'll see both lines continuing through the end of the year. In the NVIDIA provided slide above you'll see that the GT 220 and 9500 GT perform nearly identically - so why bother with the new part? - the GT 220 will run cooler and costs less to make.
Obviously another big selling point for the new GeForce GT 220 and the 210 are features like CUDA. In this graph NVIDIA shows how even the addition of a $70 graphics card can drastically improve performance in certain consumer applications like Nero Move It and the much-hyped vReveal.
Finally, here is the last graph supplied by NVIDIA looking at the modest gaming performance. Obviously with a test resolution of 1280x1024 you won't be expecting incredible results but what I found most surprising was the lack of any comparison results. It would seem that NVIDIA wasn't very bullish on the ability for GeForce 210 or GT 220 to compare with the AMD's offerings.
i just bought a geforce 210 nvidia graphic card and i think it is a pirated from zotac,their web site is www.zotac.com and their card is zotac geforce 210 with nvidia trade mark on it making it to look like nvidia card. the card is not good as it does not posses the openGL it clam and does not support adobe after effect cs3 openGL
patrick,
First of all, Zotac is a fully licensed maker of nVidia cards. nVidia does not make their own cards, they sell chips to card makers like Zotac, EVGA, XFX, MSi, Galaxy, etc.
Second, if you are only running the drivers that came with the card on a CD (or worse, the ones included by Microsoft with Windows), you probably just need to download and install the latest drivers from the nVidia website to make sure OpenGL is there and up to date.
I bet that will get things going for you. Good luck!
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After my card on Dimension E521 died, (256mb) nvid card. I ran to best buy and got this card for around $70 about a year ago. It has been a very good card so far and actually I have not seen the real performance from this card yet. My Dell desktop is AMD Athlon 64x2 3800+ 2.0ghz. My gaming laptop refused to restart last motnh so I've had to go back to this comp. I ordered another gb ram bringin it to 3. I also found a cpu upgrade in the same Amd family and am awaiting its arrival. Amd 64x2 5300+ 2.7ghz dualcore. I am confident that it will be like a brand new computer in terms of performance...
I would highly recommend this card for people with similar circumstances as myself. If you can upgrade your vid card, consider this one. HDMI ready.... cant ask for much more than that for $70
edit.. I forgot to state the specific model of the card:
Galaxy GeForce Gt220 1GB 128 bit DDR2 HDMI+CRT+DVI
great card for the money!
will the 210 play bf3
Can the 210 run Counter-Strike source and warcraft three?
can geforce 210 1gb run GTA IV smoothly i have dual core E5700 3.0ghz 2gb ram 500gb harddisk please reply
will a gt 220 play skyrim
no
Actually, it can.
I get 45 FPS on Skyrim with:
GeForce 210 1GB
Pentium D @ 3.4 Ghz Dual Core
2 Gb DDR3 RAM
250 Gb HDD.
It's fine.
can geforce 210 run 3 monitors, i.e. vga,hdmi,dvi
with hdmi/vga and dvi/vga adapters?
can can geforce 210 run 3 monitors, i.e. vga,hdmi,dvi
with hdmi/vga and dvi/vga adapters?
Yes skryim plays nicely on the GT 220! I love it!
I recently installed Ge force 210 -1024MB-DD3-Galaxy model.
I download driver from Nvidia site.
Display is on Dell -LED 220M monitor.
I am not getting proper display and all of a sudden PC restarts and some time it hangs & slows down.
I have connected Monitor to VGA Display.
Can any one guide me what could be the reason for tripping/restart.
I have not yet connected to HDMI or Other displays yet.
through that and buy new one
You can play skyrim with these and play battle field 3 with 1280x1024 resolution. But you have to sacrifices texture to low quality. which i prefer since having good resolution = good gaming. Just try to experiment with your game option to see what suits you best. But so far gforce is a good gaming video card. But dont expect too much ^_^
youre a fuckng retard what the fuck are you going to say sacrifce shitty textures for a shitty resolution? 1280x1024 is fuckign laughable if its not 1920 by 1080 then get the fuck out fucking retard
well what a brain dead moron you are
Obviously you are very young and havent been playing with daddy's computers very long.
is this can play counter strike
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