Rumors are abounding about the release of the GeForce GTX 480 and 470 this week. One of these rumors is that Nvidia is forcing vendors to buy older, low end graphics cards to be able to get an allocation of the newer GeForce GTX 480 and 470 graphics cards.
Personally, I am not sure that it is true. But then again, we have word that Sparkle is preparing a 2GB version of the NVIDIA GeForce GT 220. Why would anyone want a 2GB low end card? I do not know. Now comes word that Sparkle is releasing a GeForce 210 with 24 cores, a GPU speed of 475Mhz, 1GB DDR2 at 800MHz, and a memory interface of 128 bits. Normally a GeForce 210 comes with 16 cores, a GPU speed of 589Mhz, 512 MB DDR2 at 800MHz, and a memory interface of 64 bits, although I did find one GeForce 210 with a memory interface of 128 bits. I have my doubts that a 2 GB GT220 is needed, though a 128-bit memory interface for a GT210 can’t hurt. Perhaps the rumor is true then.
If you search through Google news you will see Charlie’s semi-accurate website is listed as satire. He is famous for making up stuff and a huge AMD/ATi supporter.