Posted 08/27/08 at 02:56:37 PM by Paul Lilly
While high end gaming cards like ATI's 4870 and Nvidia's GTX 280 hog all the spotlight, not everyone can afford (or needs) a top of the line card. Picking up the slack at the other end of the spectrum, Nvidia this week silently launched its entry-level 9400 GT graphics card.
The 9400 GT comes with 16 processor cores clocked at 1400MHz, a 550MHz graphics clock, and 512MB of memory chugging along at 400MHz. And thanks in part to the 128-bit bus, Nvidia claims the 9400 GT will run twice as fast as the comparable 8-series graphics card.
Nvidia has set the MSRP to $59, which buys support for DirectX 10, OpenGL 2.1, CUDA general-purpose parallel computing, and hardware HD video acceleration. A cursory glance around the web shows the 9400 GT as being a respectable overclocker, but even after pushing the clocks, it looks to be best suited for HTPC and light gaming duties.
Image Credit: Nvidia
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Links:
[1] http://www.maximumpc.com/user/one4yu2c
[2] http://www.tomshardware.com/news/GeForce-9400-nVidia,6255.html
[3] http://www.maximumpc.com/article/news/report_nvidia_notebook_failures_due_material_problem
[4] http://www.maximumpc.com/article/unveiled_nvidias_next_gen_gpu
[5] http://www.maximumpc.com/article/news/nvidia_applies_pressure_with_new_9800gtx
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