NVIDIA is finalizing its 40nm chips and it is about to start shipping a new card based on the NV216 chip. We are talking about a cheap board branded as the GeForce GT 220 and this card should most likely replace their GeForce 9500 series. The video card has a 128-bit memory interface and it comes with 1GB of GDDR3 memory. It should cost slightly over $50 and the first shipment of chips should be available in late June, at least according to their partners. It's possible that you'll see these cards in retail later in the summer, but at least they are real and NVIDIA has some 40nm chips to show and sell. The first 40nm steps are not easy, and its very possible that there will be a mobile variation. - FudZilla

NVIDIA GeForce GT 220, Be First Retail 40nm Version

Lately it feels like everywhere you look is overrun by affordable video cards in the newly trendy $100-200 price point. Now AMD has released the Radeon HD 4850, introduced the excellent entry level Radeon HD 4770, and lowered the prices on the Radeon HD 4870. NVIDIA has responded by pushing down the price of the GeForce GTX 260, renaming their GeForce 9800 GTX+ as the GeForce GTS 250, and have now brought back an old friend, the GeForce 9600 GT version. So now, while you might be familiar with GeForce 9600 GT from last year, NVIDIA has a bit of a surprise in store. The first is a die shrink, moving the G94 to 55nm and a second is a brand new stepping, aimed at cutting power consumption. - PCStats

ASUS Extreme N9600 GT (55nm) 512MB Style Review

It is nothing new for video card manufacturers to attempt to improve upon already proven graphics cards. Though normally when these improvements are made the performance gain is marginal. But every once in a while a manufacturer comes out with a real gem of a product. And well, this Sapphire Radeon HD 4770 video card is one of these gems. In fact, ATI just took the liberty to come up with a mid-range product to reduce their manufacturing process and via that way they are able to proof it before they will start rolling out the big guns using the same technology. This is not at all a bad idea, as the mid-range segment brings in the most money and this should guarantee a flawless high-end product. - Bjorn3D

Sapphire Radeon HD 4770 (40nm) Video Style Review

Despite hardly being a massive player on the North American computer circuit, Sparkle has managed to spread their affairs out well around the world. Between their product page and the correspondence with Sparkle representatives, we've gained the impression that these are people who care about their product. They'd rather try to just send one of their own along to explain a customer through their purchase, rather than shaving a few dollars off the sale. We suppose then, it is this feeling of care that put us at ease when working on this Sparkle product, since we knew that if anything went wrong, we'd have some very talented support staff there to back us up. Does the product match the service? - Virtual-Hideout

Sparkle GeForce GTS 250 512MB Cool Design Review

Just the other day, we went to a friend's house to fix one of his computers having a problem with the video card crashing for no specific reason. The first thing we noticed as we walked into the computer room was how much warmer it was than the rest of the house. After commenting on that and shutting off his media player we heard a high pitched whining sound coming from his case. We asked what it was and it was to keep the ZEROtherm graphics cooler at 100% or the graphics card would freeze. Right there we knew that heat was his issue and immediately went to check his heatsink for dust build up and to make sure that it had some decent heatsink paste, and be able to handle these conditions. - HiTechLegion

Sapphire Radeon HD 4890 Toxic Card Design Preview

We've heard a rumour saying that ATI plans to discontinue 40nm based RV740 chips due to its very bad yields and before this escalates any further, so let us simply say that this is not true. We checked with multiple sources and people in the know said this is absolutely not true and we don't have any reason to doubt them. Same sources have confirmed that yields are not as good as ATI would like them to be and at the same time, demand for this product is huge but 40nm yields are getting better and the situation is improving. If anything, their RV740 was a first 40nm vessel product and a learning curve for RV870, next generation performance 40nm chip, scheduled for launch later this year. - FudZilla

Yield At 40nm Burden RV740 Won't Be Discontinued

AMD's Radeon HD 4830 has been a smash hit for everyone looking for the best performance per dollar. The card is based on the RV770, the same GPU used on the Radeon HD 4850. AMD however locked the number of shaders down to just 640 units. While the original Radeon HD 4830 design was essentially a Radeon HD 4850 reference PCB, add-in board partners quickly came out with custom designs to reduce costs. Albatron is one of the first companies to offer an even further refined design that doesn't require an extra PCI Express power connector. This means that all power is supplied to the graphics card via the PCI Express expansion slot which has a maximum power limit of 75W only. - techPowerUp

Albatron Radeon HD 4830 512MB Green Style Review

Although it was introduced nearly a year ago, graphics cards based on NVIDIA's GT200 graphics architecture are still somewhat rare. There are mid-range parts like the NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250, though these are actually based off of older G80 and G92 chipsets. Given the ongoing price war of attrition with AMD, it's not surprising that NVIDIA has driven the prices on its existing line of GT200 based graphics boards to the point where graphics cards that were previously reserved for the very high-end, are now quite affordable mid-range options for the gamer to consider. Such is the case for the GeForce GTX 260, one of the first cards based on the GT200 chip, though opted for the improved Core 216 edition. - PCStats

Sparkle GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 Cool Card Review

It is our pleasure today to welcome Sapphire's Radeon HD 4890 Atomic edition graphics board which runs at no less than 1GHz, while at the same time being really quieter compared to the reference design. The Radeon HD 4890's reference clocks are 850MHz core and 3600MHz effectively for the GDDR5 memory chips. Sapphire overclocked the memory on its Atomic edition to 4200MHz effective speed. We like the fact that Sapphire used its Atomic cooling on the first 1GHz card and the company definitely made our day as this card won't make you turn up the music to kill the fan noise and anyone who's ever heard the Radeon HD 4890's fan at maximum speed surely knows what we're talking about. - FudZilla

Sapphire Radeon HD 4890 1GB Atomic Series Review

First we must admit that this isn't the most exciting graphics board around, but that was not our intention either. So our main idea was to look at what a simple video card could bring on top of the integrated solutions, and keeping in mind the budget aspect. This particular video card is meant mostly to enhance the 3D and high definition TV capabilities of the media center PC's or office computers. This graphics card is in the low performance section, and so we can't expect high 3D performance, but we will compare it with the Intel 945GC integrated video chipset to see how it performs and if it is worth to upgrade to such a video card. And this simply since you are seeking for just that little extra performance. - ShopTalk

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