IXBT – Obviously, it’s becoming costly to release products with GDDR3 memory. It’s high time to move on to GDDR5 that allows reducing the bus down to good old (and cheap) 128 bits, leaving the bandwidth high enough.

Thus, they made the new GeForce GT 240 GPU that has a smaller core and reduced power consumption thanks to the 40nm process technology. While it has the same 96 stream processors as GeForce 9600/9600 GSO, it has fewer texture processors and ROPs, as well as the narrower 128-bit bus that works with GDDR5 memory (though GDDR3 is still supported as well).

But you can’t say that NVIDIA just renewed the 9600 GPU to sell it as something new. GT 240 has new features as well, including the fully-fledged support for CUDA, Phys