Monday, October 18th 2010
NVIDIA Lists New OEM-Only GeForce GT 440 SKU
NVIDIA slipped in a new OEM-only consumer graphics SKU, the GeForce GT 440. This development closely trails the market-wide launch of the GeForce GT 430, which in turn was an OEM-only SKU earlier. Hence there is some scope for the GT 440 to make a retail appearance soon. The specifications, according to its product page, leads us to believe that this could be a GF106-based SKU, with all 6 of its memory paths used (192-bit), albeit with DDR3. Partners have the option of installing either 1536 MB (1.5 GB) or 3072 MB (3 GB) of memory.
The Fermi-derived GF106 core is configured with 144 CUDA cores, 594 MHz core clock, 1189 MHz CUDA core clock, and either 800 or 900 MHz of DDR3 memory, providing memory bandwidth of up to 43.2 GB/s. The card supports 2-way SLI, its display connectivity consists of one each of DVI, HDMI, and D-Sub. Maximum board power is rated at 56W.
The Fermi-derived GF106 core is configured with 144 CUDA cores, 594 MHz core clock, 1189 MHz CUDA core clock, and either 800 or 900 MHz of DDR3 memory, providing memory bandwidth of up to 43.2 GB/s. The card supports 2-way SLI, its display connectivity consists of one each of DVI, HDMI, and D-Sub. Maximum board power is rated at 56W.
19 Comments on NVIDIA Lists New OEM-Only GeForce GT 440 SKU
I do agree though, for most users that is a total memory overkill for a weak card. It could help HD decoding though... decode a few frames in advance and leave it in memory buffers making for a much smoother playback experience... At the moment GPU acceleration is used to *help and assist* in the decode for each frame. With massive amounts of onboard video ram, and the right x86 CUDA compiled media player, you could have the whole file, codec, decoding and media player on the card. "instant" search, frame speedup/slowdown etc.
And OEM only. Why? Does ATi-AMD have stuff like that, or they sell the lower end ones for OEM? Otherwise it wouldn't be a bad one i think, the GT240 will loose against it.
Just hope some company picks this up and start to sell in retail too with some good GDDR5 memory fitted.
the 6670 or what ever rebranding card and choose. For now its oem only so will see
440's ddr3 should cost 50 bucks period. 2 of those SLI, my guess = 9800GT?
I still await a gddr5 440 or 430.
For example this local store is advertising this HP computer with text like:
"HD5450 graphics card with up to 2815MB of memory!!". They have special mention about this computer to be good for gaming. They have small mention that it has 1024MB of memory onboard.
What this advertisement forgets to say is that this memory is GDDR2 and it has 64-bit memory channel. It has whopping 6.4GB/s memory bandwidht. Compare it to current high end models like Geforce 2 Ultra with 7.4GB/s memory bandwidht.