Nvidia has announced the GeForce 7200 GS, a card that delivers Vista Premium Ready graphics performance for a mere $50. NVIDIA touts full support for DirectX 9.0, shader model 3.0 and high dynamic-range with the entry-level card. The G72 graphics core, clocked at 450 MHz, is essentially a crippled GeForce 7300-series core: half the pipelines. This brings the total pixel pipelines to two, each with one texture unit. PureVideo video processing is also supported; however, NVIDIA is unclear if the GeForce 7200 GS supports PureVideo HD for high-definition video decoding acceleration.

Add-in board manufacturers are free to equip GeForce 7200 GS graphics cards with 128MB or 256MB of DDR2 memory attached to the GPU via a 64-bit memory interface. NVIDIA recommends 800 MHz for GeForce 7200 GS graphics cards. GeForce 7200 GS based graphics cards will be available to OEMs, system builders and retail. NVIDIA add-in board partners with GeForce 7200 GS products include Albatron, ASUS, Biostar, ECS, EVGA, Foxconn, Galazy, Gigabyte, Innovision, Leadtek, MSI, Palit, Point of View, PNY Technology, SPARKLE, XFX, Zogis and Zotac.

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News source: DailyTech


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(1 reply) Quote this comment Reply to this comment #1 Posted by +Aq3e on 09 May 2007 - 02:56
Even my X800GTO 512mb PCIE video card doesn't have shader 3, time to upgrade.
Quote this comment #1.1 Posted by Tantawi on 09 May 2007 - 06:31
Don't ever "upgrade" to this card
Quote this comment Reply to this comment #2 Posted by NightmarE D on 09 May 2007 - 03:04
I got the GeForce 6200 they did this same thing with. Surprised at the performance I can get out of it
(2 replies) Quote this comment Reply to this comment #3 Posted by kiran_aryan on 09 May 2007 - 03:59
Seriously, this isn't suited for today's games out there. For users who wish to have a graphics card to experience Windows Aero on Vista or Beryl on Linux, they may consider this for the price :p
Quote this comment #3.1 Posted by NightmarE D on 09 May 2007 - 05:37
Not everyone plays all the newest games though. Also, not everyone needs games running at the highest resolution possible or have 4X AA or anything else like that turned on. If my 6200 can run newer games fine then this one would and would also have better performance.
Quote this comment #3.2 Posted by +J400uk on 09 May 2007 - 18:11
Quote - (kiran_aryan said @ #3)
Seriously, this isn't suited for today's games out there. For users who wish to have a graphics card to experience Windows Aero on Vista or Beryl on Linux, they may consider this for the price :p


Hate to break it to you but these cards arent actually meant for games.
(1 reply) Quote this comment Reply to this comment #4 Posted by ~*What U Know About That~* on 09 May 2007 - 04:05
Wouldn't it make sense to announce a 8200GS? DX10 would push it a s a Vista product for the lower end much better than a 7200GS. Well thats just my view on it.
Quote this comment #4.1 Posted by SomeAzn on 09 May 2007 - 06:29
I think the point of the card was to give people with integrated graphs all the bells and whistles of Vista. It is not aimed at gaming. Vista does not require DX10 to work and DX10 games will require much more than a $50 card to run.
Quote this comment Reply to this comment #5 Posted by Sp3ctranova on 09 May 2007 - 04:52
bring on the GeForce Go 8 series!
Quote this comment Reply to this comment #6 Posted by Mikee4fun on 09 May 2007 - 05:18
only buy 8800's =P
(1 reply) Quote this comment Reply to this comment #7 Posted by PureLegend on 09 May 2007 - 07:04
Maybe I should upgrade my 6200 to this, or wait for the 8300.
Quote this comment #7.1 Posted by Tantawi on 09 May 2007 - 07:12
Good idea. 7200GS doesn't seems like an upgrade to me!
Quote this comment Reply to this comment #8 Posted by Croquant on 09 May 2007 - 07:57
Great. Maybe now they'll finally update the 7000 series drivers.

No, let me put that another way:

:Ahem:

HEY> NVIDIA! < UPDATE YOUR FREAKING DRIVERS ALREADY!

Ahhhh... it feels good to release that anger. Cup of green tea, anyone?
Quote this comment Reply to this comment #9 Posted by qbie on 09 May 2007 - 08:26
There's already a Geforce 7100 GS Which says it's vista ready as well, we sell it at PC World for £30
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