NVIDIA Inroduces The New GeForce GT 220 Edition

Not every computer or computer user needs to have the fastest most powerful card on the market. In fact the majority of users out there can get by with the on-boarding offering most new motherboards have. I know I know this is crazy talk coming from a true geek, but the truth of the matter is more low-end budget minded cards are ever sold than high-end GPU's. The reason why is obviously painful, high-end cards are extremely expensive!

Enter the new budget minded low end GT 200 series cards from NVIDIA. Now most the time you hear us say budget pr low end we mean lower in priced or performance compared to what's currently on the market. Well that's not the case here. These cards are lower in performance than some of the cards that have been out for two years.

So why would you be interesting in these new low power cards. Well for starters the new manufacturing tech uses less power, creates less heat and well in general out performs some of the older cards. Maybe not by much but every bit counts. Now I'm not saying if you have a card with similar specs, like the ATI 4670 or the NVIDIA 9600 GSO or 9600 GT you should upgrade. I'm saying if you don't have either you might want to look at the GT 220 before you buy one of the older models. The price to performance ratio isn't there but its another option if the pricing is right.

GeForce GT 220 Specs

• 40nm core
• PC!-E 2.0 Interface
  
• 48 processing cores
• Shader clock: 1360 MHz
• Core clock: 625 MHz
• 512MB or 1GB DDR3 or DDR2 memory
• 128-bit memory interface
• DirectX 10.1 with Shader Model 4.1 compatible
• OpenGL 3.1 compatible
• NVIDIA CUDA & PhysX ready
• NVIDIA PureVideo HD technology

NVIDIA GeForce GT 220 Reviews

• AnandTech - NVIDIA’s GeForce GT 220: 40nm and DX10.1 for the Low-End
• TweakTown - Galaxy GeForce GT 220 1GB Video Card (2)
• OCC - Palit GT 220 Sonic Edition Review
• Driver Heaven - Palit & Gainward Geforce GT220

After reading the reviews you'll notice a common thread. The performance of the GT 220 is horrible when compared to other value cards at it's price point. NVIDIA wants to see these cards sell for $69-$79, with the best cards (those with GDDR3) selling at that $79 price point. Current Newegg pricing put these cards a $49-79 depending on model and MIR's. So depending on your taste for rebates, you can get a Radeon HD 4670 for between $59 and $69, or on the NVIDIA side a 9600GT for between $69 and $79 either of which would blow the GT 220 away.

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