Sparkle announces GeForce GT 220... with 2GB RAM

**annihilat0r** · 03-20-2010, 02:28 AM

What do you know, Fermi wasn't Nvidia's real answer to Hemlock/Cypress/Juniper!

http://translate.google.com/translat...42900%2Ftm.htm

**ajaidev** · 03-20-2010, 03:39 AM

Yes very cunning of Nvidia to hide behind the Fermi and then release this.

ATi is doomed well no one will buy the 4770 against this aammm aaaa

**Duniek** · 03-20-2010, 05:48 AM

wooooooooooooooooooow
Can I put max settings in GTA4?

**Nintendork** · 03-20-2010, 09:41 AM

Can it run eyefinity?

**Helloworld_98** · 03-20-2010, 09:44 AM

if it had 12x outputs I could see a point in this, but it doesn't so WTF Sparkle?

**K404** · 03-20-2010, 09:54 AM

2GB of DDR2 @ 800MHz (400MHz real) at the end of a 128-bit bus........

I was gonna say "would maybe make a good PhysX card to go alongside a 5870..................

but never mind.

Wont that be a black hole of data? Whatever gets in there aint coming out again?

**Cybercat** · 03-20-2010, 10:03 AM

Awesome!

*buys 10*

**Etihtsarom** · 03-20-2010, 10:09 AM

What
The Fruck....They're joking right?
Edit: Is it possible that we in the first world are so spoiled with the latest and greatest that we forget there are people out there with the need for these things?

Nah...They must be joking.

**Frananta** · 03-20-2010, 10:33 AM

I know some ppl that will definitely buy this card, they just think the bigger the RAM it had, the better the performance

**Luka_Aveiro** · 03-20-2010, 10:39 AM

Originally Posted by Frananta

I know some ppl that will definitely buy this card, they just think the bigger the RAM it had, the better the performance

Precisely.

**WhiteFireDragon** · 03-20-2010, 10:43 AM

i'm not too much into video cards, but isn't GT220 a low end, maybe midrange card? why the overkill of memory on this low end card?

**Mungri** · 03-20-2010, 10:48 AM

Originally Posted by Frananta

I know some ppl that will definitely buy this card, they just think the bigger the RAM it had, the better the performance

I made that mistake myself too ..... Waaaaay back when I bought a 32 meg ATI Rage Fury over a 16 Meg Voodoo 3 :p.

Bad card was bad. Since then I did my reading before buying.

Wouldnt this make an ok Physx card though? Or maybe not.

**SamHughe** · 03-20-2010, 12:03 PM

No, no I shouldn't!

MUST.....

RESIST......

NOOOO!

**Mungri** · 03-20-2010, 12:05 PM

LMAO!

I remember that picture =D

**SamHughe** · 03-20-2010, 12:13 PM

To be fair, XFX has a 5570 with 1GB DDR2 memory.

**JohnJohn** · 03-20-2010, 12:23 PM

Laugh all you want, the lame truth is, that the moronic of the common people are making this card a best seller, almost overtook the 5800 series in February. Scored more than 4800 or 5700 series. And it is only 1 card.

While you are asking Sparkle the why of this card, Joe "i have a 2gb card" Johnson is buying 2 of these for his ultimate gaming rig.

http://store.steampowered.com/hwsurv...card/?sort=chg

**~~ToxAvenger~~** · 03-20-2010, 12:31 PM

People absolutely will buy a 2 GByte card over a 1 Gbyte unit, regardless of the rest of the specs. Sad really.

**xman01** · 03-20-2010, 01:09 PM

bill:-"hey joe, what video card you bought?"

joe:-"i bought a 2gb one"

bill:- "it running the game very good?"

joe:-"yep, games playing better than the 1gb one"

that's the normal dialogue with ppl. f.ckin halarious

**[XC] gomeler** · 03-20-2010, 01:35 PM

This card could have a select few applications. I remember seeing some results with SQL databases having stupid high throughput when run completely from the GPU GDDR. So maybe dump 4 to 6 of these silly cards into a server and have an incredibly quick database for a database intensive project? I suspect you'd be better off doing this in system memory though, would be easier to get a workable size of memory.

**Russian** · 03-20-2010, 02:01 PM

Originally Posted by [XC] gomeler

This card could have a select few applications. I remember seeing some results with SQL databases having stupid high throughput when run completely from the GPU GDDR. So maybe dump 4 to 6 of these silly cards into a server and have an incredibly quick database for a database intensive project? I suspect you'd be better off doing this in system memory though, would be easier to get a workable size of memory.

Chris, i would give you a medal for your valiant effort to find some god awful way to make use of 2GB on this card. Haha.

**Salavat23** · 03-20-2010, 02:05 PM

So this has 2GB of ram. The 5870 only has 1GB of vram... so this must be 2 times faster. Damn, maybe nVidia is getting back into the game. Definite buy over the 58xx if priced right IMO.

**Nanometer** · 03-20-2010, 03:15 PM

512 is probably overkill for this card... lol

**xman01** · 03-20-2010, 04:38 PM

Originally Posted by Nanometer

512 is probably overkill for this card... lol

well said

**jakefalcons** · 03-20-2010, 04:51 PM

i thought this was EXTREME! systems. if anything this card needs more memory! on a more realistic note this is just sad

. taking advantage of customers that don't know any better.

**RPGWiZaRD** · 03-20-2010, 05:00 PM

Not like this comes by any suprise. NVIDIA has already kept practicing exploiting people (ATI ofc too but not as severely as NV) who knows no better in the past few years. Seems like a good strategy to fill their pockets, why give up now?

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