It was considered Until now that video card GeForce 7100 gs will be a variety of G72 with the support of technology TurboCache. video card of this series must will appeare on the market during September.
The GeForce 7100 gs will be made on the previous chip NV44, well familiar to us on video card of series GeForce 6200 turboCache. The frequencies of this video card will be equal to 350/666 MHz, they will be equipped with memory of type Gddr-2 and support technology TurboCache.
as an example of the GeForce 7100 gs product can serve the video card Asus EN7100GS512TD, witch come with only 128 mb. memory. Support "up to 512 mb. memory" using the TurboCache technology, which borrows a part of the system memory for the needs of graphic subsystem.
On the speed level of GeForce 7100 gs it will hardly differ from GeForce 6200 TC. The recommended cost of this card is about $50. Judging by everything, the new card received some insignificant changes in functionality, that also served the reason for the name change . for NVIDIA it is more advantageous to produce budget video ship on the new 0.08 m technical process. . Analogous situation with the change appeared at the moment of announcement GeForce MX 4000, when under the new name was proposed slightly modernized video card GeForce 4 mX440-8x.
Possible to assume that for budget videocard this is an important condition, which ensures the maintenance of demand at the necessary level.