NVIDIA Ships Decent DX10 Graphics Card For Under $100 208
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MojoKid writes "NVIDIA is launching a new mainstream graphics card today, aimed at consumers in the market for a relatively low-cost upgrade from an integrated graphics solution or older entry-level GPU. The new GeForce GT 240 features a GPU with 96 processor cores, 8 ROP units, and 32 texture filtering units. The GPU is manufactured using a 40nm process, features a GDDR5 memory controller (that's also compatible with GDDR3), and unlike NVIDIA's current high-end GPUs, the GT 240 is DirectX 10.1 compatible. For $100 or less, what's perhaps most interesting is that this graphics card actually puts up respectable frame rates with AA turned on and no external power needed beyond what a standard PCIe slot provides."
Tom's Hardware Link (Score:5, Informative)
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Re:So, I have a question... (Score:4, Informative)
If a device can display video at 1080p 24+ frames per second, what's the point of more?
Displaying a video and rendering a 3d scene are two entirely different things. With a video you don't need textures, bump mapping, or dynamic lighting, you just play the frames.
Re:nVidia 9400M (Score:2, Informative)
You can almost get a 4870 for less than that which would be DX11 compatible/significantly faster.
Uh, no. That would be 10.1 on any ATI card that starts with 4. Nice try, though.
Re:how do ati cards at the same price do next to t (Score:5, Informative)
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Re:nVidia 9400M (Score:3, Informative)
try again. [tomshardware.com]
DX11 and DX10.1 will be sharing a lot of features. DX10.0 does not. All the people getting an 8800gt for example, got screwed by that. I'm glad NV has a DX10.1 solution, but when will anyone have a copy of the DX11 card to test?
Sorry though, I meant to link the 5750, I was looking through stuff. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814102859 [newegg.com]
Re:Great.. (Score:3, Informative)
This card is VDPAU Featur Set C. Which is the
Currently, the portions capable of being offloaded by VDPAU onto the GPU are motion compensation (mo comp), inverse discrete cosine transform (iDCT) and VLD (Variable-Length Decoding) for MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4 ASP (MPEG-4 Part 2), MPEG-4 AVC (H.264 / DivX 6), VC-1, WMV3/WMV9, Xvid / OpenDivX (DivX 4), and DivX 5 encoded videos.
My CPU never broke 10% with anything from Xvid to 1080p x264.
Now if we could only get the sound working [ubuntuforums.org]
Last I checked AMD just finally released XvBA with features that VDPAU had last year.
too little too late (Score:1, Informative)
The 4850 has been at the $100 mark (on sale) for months now. The 4770 would qualify too but it never really was pushed out in huge supply. Both equal or best the 9800GTX in sheer power. So what's the big deal?
Yay! Re-badged 9800GT FTW! (Score:5, Informative)
Come on, nVidia... Stop with the re-branding already.
This is just a die-shrunk 9800 GT, which was just a die-shrunk 8800 GT.
Yes, it's a great card for $100. But stop misleading people into thinking it's the same tech as the GTX 260-285.
(They did the same with the "GTS 250", which is just a re-badged 9800 GTX, which was just a re-badged 8800 GTS.)
What's with that hedline (Score:3, Informative)
I paid 76 dollars for my 9600 GT, fanless, and it' is direct x 10 compatible.
Re:Yay! Re-badged 9800GT FTW! (Score:2, Informative)
A geforce 4 mx was based on the geforce 2 chip set. So it was not only weaker then the other geforce 4 cards, it was also weaker then the previous, third generation. The reason that they keep doing this is quite simple, they sold [wikipedia.org] even if every magazine listed is as a must avoid:
"Despite harsh criticism by gaming enthusiasts, the GeForce4 MX was a market success. Priced about 30% above the GeForce 2 MX, it provided better performance, the ability to play a number of popular games that the GeForce 2 could not run well—above all else—to the average non-specialist it sounded as if it were a "real" GeForce4—i.e., a GeForce4 Ti. Although it was frequently out-performed by the older and more expensive GeForce 3, many buyers were unaware, particularly as Nvidia was quick not to let the GeForce 3 remain on the market. GeForce 4 MX was particularly successful in the PC OEM market, and rapidly replaced the GeForce 2 MX as the best-selling GPU.".
Re:nVidia 9400M (Score:3, Informative)
d3ac0n, if you take your time shopping, and use sites like NewEgg, you can do a really solid system for even less.
You probably know this already, but if you go to the Tom's Hardware Forum, and look at the section on home builds, people come up with builds and then other users pick them apart and make recommendations for better parts/lower prices. You can get a lot of ideas there.
People are building solid i5 systems for $700 and less (w/ 4gig DDR3). Socket 1366 i7 systems for less than $1k. If you want to stay with the AMD, you can get a great system together for less than $500 w/ the Phenom II, etc.
um... (Score:1, Informative)
Re:Radeons don't have video acceleration (Score:4, Informative)
Wrong! But I'll cut ya some slack cause it was only released a few weeks ago:
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=amd_xvba_vaapi&num=1 [phoronix.com]
ATI cards do support video acceleration under linux, although not as nice of an implementation as Nvidia's yet...
They don't? (Score:4, Informative)
This [google.com] is one generation old (not two) and more than adequate for the casual gamer. It's also under $100. It's also available in AGP, which is why I own one.
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Re:Only if standard with passive cooling... (Score:3, Informative)
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