• First 40nm GeForce GT220 Graphics Card With Lower Power Consumption

Taipei, Taiwan – October 12, 2009 - SPARKLE Computer Co., Ltd., the professional VGA card manufacturer and supplier, today announced the SPARKLE GeForce GT 220 Graphics Cards the first NVIDIA graphics cards based on advanced 40nm process, they bring better graphics processing power with lower power consumption.   

Advanced Rendering Architecture
Based on NVIDIA’s latest generation architecture, the SPARKLE GeForce GT 220 Graphics Cards adopt innovative unified architecture, dynamically allocates processing power to geometry, vertex, physics, or pixel shading operations, delivering up to 2x the gaming performance of prior generation GPUs. Built upon technologies such as NVIDIA Lumenex Engine, providing support for DirectX 10.1  Shader Model 4.0, NVIDIA Quantum Effects technology for physics computation and GigaThread Technology for extreme processing efficiency in advanced, next generation shader programs.

40nm Chip Process
Taking the power consumption and performance increases into account, SPARKLE GeForce GT 220 Graphics Cards feature 40nm chip process from TSMC. The advanced 40nm process significantly reduces the power consumption and GPU core temperature of the SPARKLE GeForce GT 220 Graphics Cards, making them to be energy-saving products and protecting our environments. Thanks to the 40nm process,  the SPARKLE GeForce GT 220 Graphics Cards feature higher working speeds, the core speeds are raised to 625MHz, the shader clocks are raised to 1360MHz, these speeds exaltation can brings amazing floating point processing power for good gaming performance and powerful performance ever from the unit area of the chip!

Fully Support High-definition Output Interface
With the fantasies from R&D team, SPARKLE GeForce GT 220 series graphics cards fully support high-definition CRT+DVI+HDMI outputs. With a creationary design, SPARKLE GT220 1GB DDR2 graphics card have a Display Port edition which can support Display Port output via DVI to Display Port adapter. It makes SPARKLE to be the first manufacturer which applied DVI to Display Port output technology on GeForce GT220 graphics cards. During the unique designed LED light button which equipped on the PCB has a switch button for manually selecting the video output types. Users can switch the output option between DVI and Display Port. The LED light uses red or green light to represent the output type. With this fantasy design, high-definition audio transmission can be realized without spdif wiring.

Large-Capacity High Speed Video Memory
Today‘s game, such as Crysis, Alone in the Dark 5, Stalker: clear sky, they normally use a large number of bump texture, transparent texture to describe faces of characters and render realistic gaming scenes, so these games put higher demands on the capacities of video memory. The current situation demands at least 512 MB video memory to run these games. SPARKLE GeForce GT 220 Graphics Cards come with incredible large 1GB high speed video memory can let users to pass the 3D Mark Vantage High Test which strictly demand at least 512MB video memory, providing much more detail information to mainstream users for better understanding its graphics capability.

Cooling System
Exquisitely made cooling fans, which have high performance thermal compound, ensures optimal thermal dissipation even after years of use.

Experience Vivid DX10.1 Graphics
Experience the vivid DX10.1 gaming graphics at fluent frame rates, or go beyond traditional 3D graphics and experience GPU-accelerated NVIDIA® PhysX™ gaming effects, Stereoscopic 3D, and lightning fast video and image processing. All you need is the SPARKLE GeForce GT 220 Graphics Cards with full DirectX 10.1 and full Shader Model 4.1 support, delivering unparalleled levels of graphics realism and film-quality effects.

Windows 7 Experience
Graphics cards are an essential element of today’s PCs, enabling more visual and more interactive experiences. As a leading manufacturer in graphics cards market, SPARKLE worked closely with Microsoft on the development of Windows 7 to ensure that its 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 GT 220 Graphics Cards will surely delight your senses and offer a premium experience for Windows 7.

Direct Compute and OpenCL Support
SPARKLE GeForce GT 220 Graphics Cards fully support Direct Compute, Microsoft’s GPU computing API and OpenCL GPU computing API made and released by Khronos Group.  Direct Compute and OpenCL let any application tap into the vast gigaflops of GPU computing power previously available only to graphics applications.

2nd Generation Pure Video HD
High-definition video decoder and post-processor delivers unprecedented picture clarity, smooth video and accurate color for movies and video. Hardware decode acceleration provides ultra-smooth playback of H.264, VC-1, WMV, DivX, MPEG-2 and MPEG-4 HD and SD movies without the need for a dual or quad-core CPU. Dual-stream hardware acceleration supports picture-in-picture content for the ultimate interactive Blu-ray and HD DVD movie experience.

NVIDIA™ PhysX
GeForce GPU supports 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.