There was a good ol' song and dance when NVIDIA unleashed its first mobile 40nm GPUs, bringing the GT200 architecture to notebooks. But the same can't be said about its first 40nm desktops parts.
Dubbed the GeForce G210 and GeForce GT220, the cards have quietly cropped up on NVIDIA's official website with barely a mention from the GPU-manufacturing giant. In NVIDIA's defence, both parts are OEM only, so we can understand the lack of marketing. Nonetheless, it's worth noting that these are NVIDIA's first desktop GPUs to support DirectX 10.1.
The GeForce G210, pictured above, features a GPU clocked at 589MHz, 16 processor cores clocked at 1,402MHz and 512MB of DDR2 memory clocked at 500MHz and connecting via a 64-bit interface.
The quicker GeForce GT220, meanwhile, features a GPU clocked at 615MHz, 48 processor cores running at 1,335MHz and a whole gigabyte of DDR3 memory operating at 790MHz via a 128-bit interface.
Both low-profile, single-slot cards feature DVI, VGA and HDMI connectivity. We won't see them sold as standalone products, but they're certain to be making their way into hundreds of thousands of OEM systems as we speak.
