Nvidia 7100GS appears

[metro.cl]

Hong Kong 30th August 2006 – InnoVISION Multimedia Limited presents the Inno3Dâ GeForceä 7100GS supporting 512MB with DDR2 speed. It is built with NVIDIAâ TurboCacheä technology that shares the capacity and bandwidth dedicated video memory which is turbocharged for performance and increases total graphics memory.

GeForce 7100GS Specifications:

Product GF 7100GS
Bus PCI-E
Core Clock (MHz) 350
Memory Interface 64-Bit
Memory Bandwidth (GB/sec) 5.3
Fill rate (billion texels/sec) 1.4
Vertices/sec (million) 263
Pixels per clock (peak) 4
RAMDACs (MHz) 400

http://www.ocworkbench.com/2006/newsphotos/aug/7100gs.jpg

Source: OCworkbench (http://www.ocworkbench.com/news.stm)

[Starscream]

all i can say is why?
the 7300GS already is a prety cheap card and its fabrication price is also low i guess. So why make an even slower 7100?

i can pick up an 7300LE for 45 euro or a 6200LE for 30 euro.
so whats the reason inmaking a 7100?

[3NZ0]

7300le is already slow enough why was there a need for anything slower?

[gOJDO]

7300le is already slow enough why was there a need for anything slower?
becouse they have chips that have not passed the 7300 stability and clock standards and this is just a wonderfull way to sell them.
A lot of computers today are used for purposes which don't need graphics accelerator.

[HaxR3]

or a very slow one

that card looks like it would perform close to a 9600 Pro, whcich would be great for playing much older games or for media enocding/decoding in a media setup

[JamesAvery22]

becouse they have chips that have not passed the 7300 stability and clock standards and this is just a wonderfull way to sell them.
A lot of computers today are used for purposes which don't need graphics accelerator.


But the majority of those types of computers come from large companies like Dell. I think the "Why?" question is rightly asked, it should just be aimed at Innovision for trying to market it in the after-market section rather than the OEM, atleast thats what I think they are doing. Not nVidia since there is plenty of demand for it.

[nn_step]

why don't they sell them as dirt cheap onboard graphics?