PNY Launches GeForce GT 220 & GeForce 210

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News Posted: Mon, Oct 12 2009 7:51 PM
PNY announced the NVIDIA GeForce GT 220 1GB and GeForce 210512MB graphics cards today. For the first time in PNY's history, the cards nowcome with a native HDMI port, giving users the flexibility to connect bothaudio and video using a single cable. The GeForce GT 220 will cost about $120while the GeForce 210 runs approximately $70. Additional details and specificationsare available below.


PNY Launches GeForce GT 220 and GeForce 210

Parsippany, NJ – October 12, 2009 – PNY Technologies®, Inc.(“PNY”), a global leader in flash memory, USB flash drives, solid state drives,computer memory upgrade modules, as well as consumer and professional graphicscards, announced today two new graphics cards: the NVIDIA® GeForce® GT 220 1GBand GeForce 210 512MB.

PNY’s new GeForce GT 220 and GeForce 210 graphics cardsoffer enhanced graphics performance, video processing power, and a premiumWindows 7 experience, all at an incredible value.  Whether you’re gaming,watching or editing HD video, or enhancing photos, both of these latestgraphics cards provide a solution for your every graphics need.  TheseGeForce GT 220 and GeForce 210 graphics cards bring the latest technology tocomputers at a reasonable cost.

For the first time in consumer graphics from PNY, both cardscome equipped with a native HDMI port.  With this new addition, consumersnow have the flexibility to connect both audio and video, via one cable, to anyHDMI enabled computer monitor or television, making the GeForce GT 220 andGeForce 210 ideal for desktop or living room use.

“These mainstream graphics cards hit a wide variety ofconsumers looking to take their PC’s to the next level at an affordable cost,”said Nicholas Mauro, senior marketing manager, PC components for PNY. “Both the GeForce GT 220 and GeForce 210 bring more versatility to Windows 7users and enhance the overall computer visualization experience.”



GeForce GT 220
  • 1024MB of DDR2 frame buffer memory
  • 625 MHz core clock and 1360 MHz shader clock
  • 12.8 GB/second memory bandwidth
  • A texture fill rate of 15 billion/second
  • An effective memory data rate of 800 MHz
  • MSRP: $119.99


GeForce 210
  • 512 MB of DDR2 frame buffer memory
  • 589 MHz core clock and 1402 MHz shader clock
  • 6.4 GB/second memory bandwidth
  • A texture fill rate of 4.712 billion/second
  • An effective memory data rate of 800 MHz
  • MSRP: $69.99
Both of PNY’s newest graphics cards come equipped with thefollowing features:
  • NVIDIA® Unified Architecture
  • Full Microsoft DirectX 10.1 support
  • NVIDIA PhysX™ technology
  • NVIDIA CUDA™ technology
  • Microsoft Windows 7 Support
  • NVIDIA PureVideo® HD technology
  • HDMI On-Board support
  • PCI Express 2.0 support
  • Dual-link HDCPCapable        
  • OpenGL 3.1 Optimization and Support
Additionally, the PNY GeForce GT 220 and GeForce 210graphics cards will be available with a value-added 30-day trial version ofvReveal®, from MotionDSP, Inc.  This video enhancement softwaredramatically enhances the quality of home videos to stabilize, clean, improvedetail, and brighten for improved viewing.  Consumers will also receive a20% discount off the purchase of the full version of the vRevealsoftware. 

PNY offers free 24-hour technical support and a 3-yearwarranty: 1 year standard with a 2 year upgrade upon completion of registrationon PNY.com. 

The PNY GeForce GT 220 and GeForce 210, along with other PNYgraphics cards, are available at the following locations:
  • Best Buy
  • NewEgg
  • TigerDirect
  • Amazon
  • Buy
  • Fry’s
  • Microcenter
Visit www.PNY.com toexperience the latest graphics cards and to learn about PNY’s entire spectrumof products.  For the gaming enthusiast, visit PNY’s on-line gaming portalat www.XLR8Gaming.net to participate inforums, special offers, contests and tournaments taking place now!
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I know someone who bought a new computer last month with the GT 220 (it was available in PCs before individual cards). It was a huuuge improvement over his old GeForce FX 5900. Performance benchmarks put it faster than the 9500GT DDR3 and 4650 DDR2 but slower than the 4670 and 9600GSO. It's probably around 4650 DDR3 performance? For the price these things are not worth it. But it works great for my friend's new PC (he mostly console games, so this is a good performer for the occasional PC gaming he does).

GT 210 is gutter trash, however. Radeon 4550 is a better choice.

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I'm even surprised that the GT220 performed as well as you say it does. Usually the x200 model in graphics cards is reserved for on board/minimal graphics such as the GeForce 8200 or ATI 3200.

Fully agree that it's a good novice solution (and we may the GT 220 card being bundled up with most budget systems soon). Better to shell out an extra $50 and get something much, much better.

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realneil replied on Wed, Oct 14 2009 7:20 PM

What you spend on Video performance you will receive back double.

If you don't spend anything then that's what you'll get. nothing

GPU power is just as or more important than CPU power.

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