Gainward GeForce GT 240 Review

considering it comes in way below the 9800gt, and I got mine for about the same price this card is, that's really sad. I really cannot understand why NVidia even released this card.

I find it funny how a lot of you are bashing nvidea for shady tactics, but at the same time you are awaiting their fermi cards. If they're so immoral..what does it make you?

This card would only make sense if it was price a whole lot cheaper!
ATI takes the ball again with this one.

Nvidia does this way too often. Instead of releasing a new card completely, with new technology, they release dozens of cards that vary slightly in performance and price. Nvidia has been marketing the 200 series for about 15 months now. Come on!

I just have a question, is the Radeon HD 4670 better than the 4770?

@IvanAwfulitch You looked at the benchmarks? Or are you living in the past? The ATI Radeon HD 4890, 5850, 5870 and 5970 and the Nvidia Geforce GTX 275, 285 and 295 are all better. And the Radeon HD 4870 is a bit worse, though 25 bucks bit cheaper, too.

@sixrealms: The 4770 is most of the times best.

Nvidia seems to be jumping the gun lately. They just re-release cards that aren't too much different from each other with different names and expect people to purchase them. I'd say getting a Radeon HD 4770, 4850, 4870, or any 5000 series Radeon card is the best bet right now due to price/performance. Anyone that wants a Nvidia card should just wait until the GT300 cards come out.

When you can get a 9800 gt for the same price, this card just makes no sense. All these low end Nvidia cards need a 25% price cut.

Meh, this looks like just a marginally less-of-a-dud card than the GT 220. I'd say this would really only be good for a PhysX card, but my GTX 260 is going to be that for me when I get a Fermi card.

What's happening to nvidia? they are losing both high-end and low-end to AMD

wow nvidia way to make a card that no sane person will buy i mean look at that weak performance lol even 2 year old cards are better and even alot lower priced cards can beat this piece of trash its a shame that nvidia has come to what they are now

It's just another old card with new name from NVIDIA, I am waiting to see what they are going to throw at ATI's 5970. i think the card is not worth it, there are lots of better options at a similar price tag, I hope nobody get fooled with this card.

Nice comprehensive benchmarks. I always appreciate that older cards like the 3850 are included, since this helps people who upgrade across generations.

Strange that the card's performance varies so much. Sometimes it's below the 9600 and even the 4670, and at other times it's considerably faster than them.

Overpriced. Late. Unupdated. i want 2!

Maybe nvidia should stop development on cards like these and instead focus on their Fermis and drop the price of their 260/275/285s. I wonder what percentage of the market they are actually targeting with this card? Can't be very high

I, too, wonder what the folks at nVidia are thinking. Are they just trying to throw their old inventory out the door and hope *****s see their brand logo on the box and buy it without doing any research? This type of tactic has been pretty common for them in the last few years, and I really just don't understand it. I used to admittedly be a big nVidia fanboy, they were always my exclusive choice for vid cards, but in recent years I've found myself using ATi more and more. When I build my new gaming rig in a few months, it'll definitely be running one of the new 5xxx series cards.

I guess I can understand people saying this would be an ok card to run PhysX, but why would you want to bother when you can use an even cheaper card to do the same job? Well, other than the power sipping efficiency, I can see how that is a boon with this card, and really one of the only saving graces. I mean, I don't even see any SLI options on this card, which might have allowed it to be a bit more competitive in a paired configuration, if the power draw could stay low and the performance surpass some of the $200 range single card options... I just really don't get it.

Sadly Vrmithrax, most of the population in terms of computers and hardware are uneducated, most will buy branded computers on a store because they think that one "unbranded" will blow eventually, and how would they have any guaranty.

To that, add the "hey! this is new it must be better than that old one that is a bit more expensive, hey dad lets buy this one the numbers are bigger here".

Yesterday, on class my teacher told me how he bought a new branded computer, then I told him to return that and showed to him a budget for a computer I could build that was twice as powerful and a quarter less in price. Sadly he threw all the boxes away and couldn't return it on that state.

Most of people are not educated on this subjects, but everytime there is a bit more knowledge.

I really cannot understand what nvidia is trying to do. I mean I don't see them launch a card to compete with anything from ATI. It is like the guys from Nvidia live in a different time lime than the ones from ATI, like a few months in the past ).

I think you are missing the point of this card. It is not meant as a top end gaming card (hence no SLI) but instead a mainstream card for non-gamers who may want some GPU acceleration. As such the card does its job and is priced between 4670 & 4770 (UK prices) where it should be, its horses for courses. NVIDIA is losing to ATI at the top end and so this is the only segment they can currently compete in. This is just a cheaper version of the GeForce 9600.

Before anyone says no I am not an NVIDIA fanboy, I have an HD4850 and never owned an NVIDIA card but am an agnostic on the red/green issue.

No its now the same price as the GeForce 9600 GT at about $90 and Newegg.com has no cards that are cheaper than this. There are on the other hand quite a few 9600 GT cards selling for just $80.

Having said that I think you are correct we are missing the point of this card, I think I even said that in the review. It is sad to think Nvidia will sell just one of these cards to a poor unsuspecting buyer, but two for SLI! I think they knew where to draw the line and that is the only reason for the lack of SLI.

Still I see no reason why the GeForce GT 240 exists. When ever AMD/ATI release a new low-end/mid-range product such as they did with the Radeon HD 4770 they do so at a price tag that makes it hard to refuse. For $100 you can keep your GeForce GT 240 and even at $80 we are still not tempted.