So the card in very way is budget, looks and appearance alright. As you can see the PCB was design for low profile usage as well -- excellent for small form factor HTPCs where this card could post processor and accelerate high-definition content. Though with only 17 Shader cores/processors even that is a little on the shy side

For a card this cheap, and really -- it's cheap at roughly 30-490 USD is does come with a nice variety of connectivity on the form of SUB-D (analog VGA), dual-link DVI and HDMI.

The GT 210 screams budget with its 16 stream processors clocked at 1402 MHz, while the graphics core operates at 590 MHz. It's armed with 512MB of DDR2 running at 790MHz.

The board's memory interface is only 64-bit, with peak memory bandwidth of 12.6GB/sec -- which is roughly 10x less than your average high-end graphics card. But let's have a look at the GeForce GT 220 -- next page please.