Nvidia won’t make a fuss out of its first GeForce 300 series chip

30th November, 2009 by adina
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During Thanksgiving, Nvidia has quietly added the first graphics chipset to the GeForce 300 series. GeForce 310 is intended to replace the earlier 210. Like its predecessor, it is built as a basic GPU for upgrading system’s performance, if these have slower integrated graphics. Even though the 310 only has a 64-bit memory bus and 16 processing cores, it can fully accelerate 1080p video in hardware, providing general computing tasks, even if we’re talking about Nvidia’s own CUDA and PhysX or DirectCompute and OpenCL.

Despite its GeForce 300 series name, the 310 seems to be a current architecture-based card, not Fermi design-based. This adds DirectX 11-level graphics, as well as stronger computing performance.

GeForce 310 has a 589MHz main clock and 512MB of DDR2 memory, running at 500MHz. Even if the accent is put on the budget, the reference board benefits from DisplayPort, DVI and VGA connectors, working with HDMI, if it uses an adapter for the DisplayPort or DVI links. Nvidia hasn’t yet announced the exact date of the card’s release date, nor a detailed full operating system support, even if the 310 seems to be, like the 210, meant to be used for pre-built computers, rather than as a stand-alone upgrade.


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