Nvidia rebrands 210 as 310

[kumquatsrus]

nV is fueled by corporate profits and doesn't really care about the consumer at all, I thought this could be seen by their business practices of the last.. 5 years?
Not to say that I never buy their cards.. but I always feel bad doing so.

corporations' sole purpose is for amassing profits in this world of capitalism? perish the thought! fictitious corporate entities "caring" about materialistic consumers is a funny notion.

 

[trick0502]

oh man, they just keep doing this!!!

http://www.fudzilla.com/content/view/16738/1/

"While complete information about this newly discovered GPU remains speculative at best, we do know that it is based on the 40nm GT216 core (GT216-200-A2), carries the codename “D10M2-20,” supports DirectX 10.1 and is supposedly the OEM version of the recently launched Geforce GT 220. In specific, the Geforce 315 runs at identically the same speeds with a 625MHz core, 1360MHz shaders, and 1800MHz DDR3 memory. However, the memory has been doubled on this OEM card to 1GB of 128-bit DDR3, up from 512MB of 128-bit DDR3 on the stock version of the Geforce GT 220 (although several manufacturers supply 512MB and 1GB variants)."

 

[Digital Viper-X-]

both NV and ATI provide detailed specs if you actually select their products, ATI provides a little more info but it's info that is useless to someone who doesn't follow High end gpus closely and even knows the terminology

ATI Radeon™ HD 5870 GPU Feature Summary

* 2.15 billion 40nm transistors
* TeraScale 2 Unified Processing Architecture
o 1600 Stream Processing Units
o 80 Texture Units
o 128 Z/Stencil ROP Units
o 32 Color ROP Units
* GDDR5 interface with 153.6 GB/sec of memory bandwidth
* PCI Express 2.1 x16 bus interface
* DirectX® 11 support
o Shader Model 5.0
o DirectCompute 11
o Programmable hardware tessellation unit
o Accelerated multi-threading
o HDR texture compression
o Order-independent transparency
* OpenGL 3.2 support1
* Image quality enhancement technology
o Up to 24x multi-sample and super-sample anti-aliasing modes
o Adaptive anti-aliasing
o 16x angle independent anisotropic texture filtering
o 128-bit floating point HDR rendering
* ATI Eyefinity multi-display technology2,3
o Three independent display controllers
+ Drive three displays simultaneously with independent resolutions, refresh rates, color controls, and video overlays
o Display grouping
+ Combine multiple displays to behave like a single large display
* ATI Stream acceleration technology
o OpenCL 1.0 compliant
o DirectCompute 11
o Double precision floating point processing support
o Accelerated video encoding, transcoding, and upscaling4,5
+ Native support for common video encoding instructions
* ATI CrossFireX™ multi-GPU technology6
o Dual, triple, and quad GPU scaling
o Dual-channel bridge interconnect
* ATI Avivo HD Video & Display technology7
o UVD 2 dedicated video playback accelerator
o Advanced post-processing and scaling8
o Dynamic contrast enhancement and color correction
o Brighter whites processing (blue stretch)
o Independent video gamma control
o Dynamic video range control
o Support for H.264, VC-1, and MPEG-2
o Dual-stream 1080p playback support9,10
o DXVA 1.0 & 2.0 support
o Integrated dual-link DVI output with HDCP11
+ Max resolution: 2560x160012
o Integrated DisplayPort output
+ Max resolution: 2560x160012
o Integrated HDMI 1.3 output with Deep Color, xvYCC wide gamut support, and high bit-rate audio
+ Max resolution: 1920x120012
o Integrated VGA output
+ Max resolution: 2048x153612
o 3D stereoscopic display/glasses support13
o Integrated HD audio controller
+ Output protected high bit rate 7.1 channel surround sound over HDMI with no additional cables required
+ Supports AC-3, AAC, Dolby TrueHD and DTS Master Audio formats
* ATI PowerPlay™ power management technology7
o Dynamic power management with low power idle state
o Ultra-low power state support for multi-GPU configurations
* Certified drivers for Windows 7, Windows Vista, and Windows XP

Speeds & Feeds

* Engine clock speed: 850 MHz
* Processing power (single precision): 2.72 TeraFLOPS
* Processing power (double precision): 544 GigaFLOPS
* Polygon throughput: 850M polygons/sec
* Data fetch rate (32-bit): 272 billion fetches/sec
* Texel fill rate (bilinear filtered): 68 Gigatexels/sec
* Pixel fill rate: 27.2 Gigapixels/sec
* Anti-aliased pixel fill rate: 108.8 Gigasamples/sec
* Memory clock speed: 1.2 GHz
* Memory data rate: 4.8 Gbps
* Memory bandwidth: 153.6 GB/sec
* Maximum board power: 188 Watts
* Idle board power: 27 Watts

Note: The below specifications represent this GPU as incorporated into NVIDIA's reference graphics card design. Graphics card specifications may vary by Add-in-card manufacturer. Please refer to the Add-in-card manufacturers' website for actual shipping specifications.
GPU Engine Specs:
CUDA Cores 240
Graphics Clock (MHz) 648 MHz
Processor Clock (MHz) 1476 MHz
Texture Fill Rate (billion/sec) 51.8
Memory Specs:
Memory Clock (MHz) 1242
Standard Memory Config 1 GB GDDR3
Memory Interface Width 512-bit
Memory Bandwidth (GB/sec) 159.0
Feature Support:
NVIDIA SLI®-ready* 2-way/3-Way
GeForce 3D Vision Ready yes
NVIDIA PureVideo® Technology* HD
NVIDIA PhysX™-ready yes *
NVIDIA CUDA™ Technology yes
Microsoft DirectX 10
OpenGL 2.1
Certified for Windows Vista yes
Display Support:
Maximum Digital Resolution 2560x1600
Maximum VGA Resolution 2048x1536
Standard Display Connectors HDTV
Two Dual Link DVI
Multi Monitor yes
HDCP* yes
HDMI* Via adapter
Audio Input for HDMI SPDIF
Standard Graphics Card Dimensions:
Height 4.376 inches (111 mm)
Length 10.5 inches (267 mm)
Width Dual-slot
Thermal and Power Specs:
Maximum GPU Temperature (in C) 105 C
Maximum Graphics Card Power (W) 204 W
Minimum System Power Requirement (W) 550 W
Supplementary Power Connectors 6-pin x2

 

[PrincessFrosty]

I can't say I care all that much, I buy cards based on their real world performance balanced against their price. What does the model number matter, it's just the usual PR rubbish every single company pull.

 

[OhMyGod]

You jumped ship because you don't like their marketing?

I went with who had the best card.....I could care less about marketing or how they re brand....none of that matters in the games I play.

Until you get fucked by it. Your thinking goes along with the attitude, "Hurray for me.... fuck you".

 

[vengence]

Until you get fucked by it. Your thinking goes along with the attitude, "Hurray for me.... fuck you".

you got fucked by buying the faster card that preforms better in games?

 

[Crosshairs]

Until you get fucked by it. Your thinking goes along with the attitude, "Hurray for me.... fuck you".

Oh really?
How exactly would I get 'fucked" by it.....anyone with half a brain knows what they are buying.
If your buying from strictly marketing BS,and don't do your own research,then I have no pity for you.

I can assure you, I will not be getting"fucked" by any of it.

 

[FoxhoundOp]

These threads are always a treat to read. People are so passionate about their computer hardware lol.

 

[Mr. K6]

These threads are always a treat to read. People are so passionate about their computer hardware lol.

Until they get fucked by it.