SPARKLE Computer Co., Ltd., the professional VGA card manufacturer and supplier, today unveils the SPARKLE GeForce 210/GT220/GT240 PCI Express x1 Graphics Cards, creating upgrade possibility for user’s generic PC, providing 1080p HD video acceleration, DX10.1 gaming and premium Windows 7 experience for ordinary users.
With latest PCI Express technology, SPARKLE GeForce 210/GT220/GT240 PCI Express x1 Graphics Cards use PCI Express x1 bus type, they can be added on the motherboard which have at least one PCI Express x1 slot as the second graphics card, providing multiple monitors supports for computer users and certain industries, in addition to industrial users, they also support the upgrading of Intel Pine Trail motherboard which has only one PCI Express x1 slot.
SPARKLE GeForce 210/GT220/GT240 PCI Express x1 Graphics Cards are also suitable for HTPC which doesn’t come with much expansion ability and no PCI Express 16x slot, they help HTPC to smoothly playback 1080p HD videos with 2nd PureVideo Technology from NVIDIA. SPARKLE GeForce 210/GT220/GT240 PCI Express x1 Graphics Cards are also the best choices for budget gamers who want more 3D powerful weapons to replace onboard graphics but with only PCI Express x1 slot onboard.
29 Sep 2020 - Graphics card reviewed The GeForce GT 240 is a very low performing piece of gaming hardware and can probably only run indie system requirements. Clover - this is the bootloader we'll be using. Real macs have a custom firmware that allows them to boot macOS. PC hardware needs a little help to get this working; Clover helps us achieve that.
Cooling System
Exquisitely made cooling fans which have high performance thermal compound ensures optimal thermal dissipation even after years of use.
Gt240 For Macbook Air
Advanced Rendering Architecture
SPARKLE GeForce 210/GT220/GT240 PCI Express x1 Graphics Cards use NVIDIA’s next generation GT218/GT216/GT215 chip architecture. They can dynamically allocates 3D processing power to geometry, vertex, physics or pixel shading operations, delivering excellent gaming performance of prior generation GPUs. Thanks to technologies such as NVIDIA Lumenex Engine, SPARKLE GeForce 210/GT220/GT240 PCI Express x1 Graphics Cards support DirectX 10.1, Shader Model 4.1, NVIDIA Quantum Effects Technology for physics computation and GigaThread Technology for extreme processing efficiency in advanced, next generation shader programs.
Gorgeous Graphics
Modern games and 3D applications demand more graphics performance than ever before and integrated graphics simply aren’t good enough. SPARKLE GeForce 210/GT220/GT240 PCI Express x1 Graphics Cards packs CUDA processing cores into a compact power efficient design delivering up to 37x the performance of integrated solutions! If you want to play popular games like World of Warcraft, Spore, Sims3, Left 4 Dead or Fallout 3, SPARKLE GeForce 210/GT220/GT240 PCI Express x1 Graphics Cards are essential additions to your PC.
All-Solid-Capacitor Design
The capacitors are key factor of power supply on the system and it has great impact on system stability. At present, solid capacitors and electrolytic capacitors both store electricity and discharge it when needed. According to factual test, any operation under high frequency and temperature, solid capacitors are able to supply more stable current than electrolytic capacitors and strengthen longer lifespan. Solid capacitors contain zero risk of leaking or exploding. The SPARKLE GeForce 210/GT220/GT240 PCI Express x1 Graphics Cards use all solid capacitor as a true factor of products quality.
Full-Scale HD output interface
SPARKLE GeForce 210/GT220/GT240 PCI Express x1 Graphics Cards come with a full-scale HD output interface, which includes HDMI 1.3a, DVI and CRT interfaces.
HDMI 1.3a Support
Fully integrated support for HDMI 1.3a including xvYCC,Deep color and 7.1 digital surround sound.
Windows 7 Premium Windows 7 Experience
Graphics processing units (GPUs) are an essential element of today’s PCs, enabling more visual and more interactive experiences. As leaders in visual computing and graphics cards market, NVIDIA and SPARKLE worked closely with Microsoft on the development of Windows 7 to ensure that SPARKLE GeForce 210/GT220/GT240 PCI Express x1 Graphics Cards take full advantage of the great new features and functionality. If you use your PC to enhance photos, watch or edit videos, play games, or if you simply desire a fast and efficient graphical interface, SPARKLE GeForce 210/GT220/GT240 PCI Express x1 Graphics Cards will surely delight your senses and offer a premium experience for Windows 7.
Fantastic Video
Get all the video processing power that your digital lifestyle requires. Clean up home video and post to Facebook with SPARKLE GeForce 210/GT220/GT240 PCI Express x1 Graphics Cards. Convert your video and put it on your iPod in minutes instead of hours or make your DVDs look like HD. Does your PC have a CPU powerful enough to playback high definition Blu-Ray Movies? It doesn’t matter, with 2nd Generation PureVideo HD decoder, SPARKLE GeForce 210/GT220/GT240 PCI Express x1 Graphics Cards can playback any Blu-Ray Movie with any modern CPU.
NVIDIA PhysX
GeForce GPU support for NVIDIA PhysX technology, enabling a totally new class of physical gaming interaction for a more dynamic and realistic experience with GeForce.
NVIDIA CUDA Technology
CUDA technology unlocks the power of the GPU’s processor cores to accelerate the most demanding system tasks such as video transcoding delivering up to 7x performance over traditional CPUs.
OpenGL 3.2 Optimization and Support
Ensures top‐notch compatibility and performance for OpenGL applications
So today we'll be looking at the GeForce GT 240. It's an entry level sub-100 USD product which brings some 'okay' game performance to the table, but it could easily function as a dedicated PhysX card or generic accelerator as well. Thinking here in terminology like Photoshop CS4 acceleration, transcoding videos, accelerating and post processing video's and really new is actually Flash 10.1 acceleration, which is rather handy in big high-resolution environments.
The card we received comes from MSI and is in fact their OC model. It's their own design with nice black PCB, custom performance cooler and really nice connectivity in the likings of DVI, SUB-D and even HDMI. Embedded is of course the 'new' 40nm based G215 GPU core which houses 96 shader/stream processors tied down to eight ROP units. Though the DirectX 11 era has started, NVIDA has not been able to put out any DX11 class products. The GeForce GT 240 however does get a minor improvement as there has been a shift from DX 10 towards DirectX 10.1 for this GPU.
Here are some generic specs for the GeForce GT 240 (reference)
- Fabrication Process 40 nm
- Graphics Clock (texture and ROP units) 550 MHz
- Processor Clock (Shader units) 1360 MHz
- Memory Clock (Clock rate / Data rate)
- 1700 MHz / 3400 MHz (GDDR5)
- 1000 MHz / 2000 MHz (DDR3)
- Total Video Memory 512MB or 1GB
- Memory Interface 128-bit
- Total Memory Bandwidth
- 32.0 GB/s (DDR3)
- 54.4 GB/s (GDDR5)
- Shader Cores 96
- ROP Units 8
- Texture Filtering Units 32
- Texture Filtering Rate (billion/sec) 17.6 GT/s
- Microsoft DirectX / Shader Model 10.1 / 4.1
- Idle / Max Board Power (TDP) 9 watts / 70 watts
- GPU Thermal Threshold 105° C
Gt240 For Mac Os
The more interesting fact is that the GPU has an improved memory controller as it can be tied to gDDR5 right now. As such you'll see gDDR3 and gDDR5 models released on the market. We do recommend you to go with the gDDR5 model as the card is tied to a 128-bit wide memory bus; gDDR5 will double up memory bandwidth over 128-bit gDDR3 memory and that's a very important aspect inn terms of overall performance.
MSI's card is tagged as OC model. It thus comes with gDDR5 memory (512MB) and included into the package is MSI's popular Afterburner overclock software. The software will allow you increase a little extra voltage on the GPU, and then you can overclock the core and shader processor and of course the gDDR5 Samsung based memory.
Gt240 For Macbook Pro
So we feel in order for this product series to remain competitive, the pricing needs to stay under 100 USD at launch, unfortunately due to the customizations on the MSI board the pricing went up towards 105 USD -- and at that price point it is competing directly with the DX11 ready Radeon HD 5750 and Radeon HD 4770. But let's check it out.