Company: nVIDIA
Authour: James Prior
Editor: Charles Oliver
Date: October 11th, 2010

NVIDIA
![]() Target Market |
![]() Fermi Geforce |
Current Offerings
NVIDIA is strongly supporting 3D media, and as such uses the GeForce and GeForce GT branding to differentiate features. Cards with the GT designator can support 3D Vision for 'Theater quality' immersive 3D movies, but the GeForce without modifier is designed for desktop application and casual gaming, and movie playback without 3D or HD enhancing features. Below is a comparison of the desktop and prebuilt GeForce cards competing with the GT 430:
![]() NVIDIA Geforce GT 430 |
![]() NVIDIA Competition |
If some of those specifications look familiar, it is because the GT216 and GT218 GPUs were based on the 55nm G94 and G96 designs, moved to TSMC's 40nm process to give better performance/watt. The GT215 core was previously known as G92b, but reduced in SP count from 128 to 96 for GT 240, and further dropped to 72 for the GT 320. All designs were also updated to support DirectX 10.1.
GF108 Features

GF 108
![]() GF108 Core |
The GeForce GT 430 offers native dual-link DVI and HDMI outputs, supporting HDMI 1.4a, as well as VGA that can be removed for low-profile use. No external power connector is needed, and the sub 50W power envelope means just about any computer with a PCI-Express graphics slot and a 300W power supply should be able to use it.
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