NVIDIA's GeForce 300-series line of graphics cards hasn't had the most compelling of introductions.
Following last month's launch of the GeForce 310 - a seemingly new card that is in actual fact little more than a rebranded GeForce 210 - the company's second 300-series GPU has made an appearance in desktop systems built by HP.
Available in China, the HP systems feature a yet-to-be-announced GPU dubbed the GeForce 315. There's no official confirmation from NVIDIA, but HP lists the card's specification as follows:
Judging by the details - namely a GT216 core clocked at 625MHz - it looks as though the GeForce 315 is nothing other than a GeForce GT 220 under a different guise. No surprise, then, that NVIDIA doesn't appear to be in a hurry to officially announce this one.
We suggested late last month that NVIDIA might end up padding out the low-end GeForce 300-series range with rebranded 200-series cards, and that prediction appears to be ringing true. Meanwhile, the company's first DirectX 11 cards, based on the actually-new Fermi architecture are expected to fill the mid-range and high-end segments in the first quarter of fiscal 2011.
