A leading graphics cards maker Leadtek Research has quietly rolled-out a flavour of its high-end Winfast A400 GT graphics card with reduced memory speed compared to the original design. The new product is likely to be slower compared to the reference cards by NVIDIA Corp., the reasons behind the move are unclear.
An observer has sent X-bit labs a note where he said Leadtek had started to produce lower-speed flavours of its graphics cards based on NVIDIA GeForce 6800 GT graphics processing units in late September, 2004, and had not declare such products on at least some of its web-sites. The so-called Winfast A400GT ‘Lite’ clocks GPU at 350MHz, the speed recommended by NVIDIA Corp. for the “GT” flavour of its GeForce 6800 chip, but offers reduced memory speed of 900MHz, down from 1000MHz suggested by the graphics processor developer.
A Leadtek’s spokesperson in the USA did not respond to the enquiry seeking for comments on the matter. However, GameVE.com online store offered Leadtek’s A400 GT product with 350MHz/900MHz speeds for GPU/memory at press time.
The NVIDIA GeForce 6800-series of chips unveiled in mid-April are the company’s flagship products in the GeForce 6-series of graphics processors. The GeForce 6-series of graphics processors will be eventually available across entry-level, mainstream, performance-mainstream, high-end as well as so-called ultra high-end graphics cards. The new series of NVIDIA’s graphics processors is the company’s second generation lineup of DirectX 9.0-compatible offerings that greatly leverage the feature-set of NVIDIA GeForce FX graphics chips and brings important additional capabilities, such as Shader Model 3.0, as well as great performance improvements over the previous generation hardware.
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