Palit announces the world first 1024MB GDDR5 GT240 Sonic

Palit Microsystems, the leading graphic card manufacturer who caters to end users that desire ultra high definition graphics for gaming and Home Theater entertainment, will be introducing GeForce® GT240 Series and the first to premier GT240 1024MB GDDR5.

Palit releases 5 specifications of the GT240 Series: GeForce GT240 512MB GDDR3, GT240 1024MB DDR3, GT240 512MB GDDR5, 1024MB GDDR5 and the premier of Palit GT240 SONIC 1024MB GDDR5.

Palit GT240 Sonic 1024MB is equipped with the world fastest GDDR5 memory, provides 10% faster performance than standard specification and even 25% faster than GeForce 9600GT.

With Palit GT240 series, all end users can benefit from a better electronic conductive and excellent heat resistance to enhance system durability. Combined with the latest 40nm processor technology, support Windows 7 Operating System, support DirectX10.1, and full OS-CON capacitor components to insure stability.

By surpassing the demands of today's digital world, you can now modify your photos and home videos into a masterpiece at the click of a button with the Palit NVIDIA® GeForce® GT240 series graphic card. It also allow you to view flawlessly with Adobe Flash 10.1 video in full screen HD, and let you play the latest games with higher frame rates with NVIDIA® PhysX® effects.

Palit GT240 series are available in the World Wide market. This will be a perfect purchase for all users who likes gaming or multimedia.

Features

NVIDIA® unified architecture:

- Fully unified shader core dynamically allocates processing power to geometry, vertex, physics, or pixel shading operations, delivering up to 2x the gaming performance of prior generation GPUs.

NVIDIA CUDA® Technology:

- CUDA® technology unlocks the power of the GPU's processor cores to accelerate the most demanding system tasks-such as video transcoding- delivering incredible performance improvements over traditional CPUs.

NVIDIA PhysX® Ready:

- GeForce® GPU support for NVIDIA PhysX® technology, enabling a totally new class of physical gaming interaction for a more dynamic and realist experience with GeForce.

Microsoft Windows 7 Support

- Windows 7 is the next generation operating system that will mark a dramatic improvement in the way the OS takes advantage of the graphics processing unit (GPU) to provide a more compelling user experience. By taking advantage of the GPU for both graphics and computing, Windows 7 will not only make today's PCs more visual and more interactive but also ensure that they have the speed and responsiveness customers want.

Full Microsoft® DirectX® 10.1 Support:

- World's first DirectX® 10.1 GPU with full Shader Model 4.1

PCI Express 2.0 Support:

- Designed to run perfectly with the new PCI Express 2.0 bus architecture, offering a future-proofing bridge to tomorrow's most bandwidth-hungry games and 3D applications by maximizing the 5GT/s PCI Express 2.0 bandwidth.

Dual-link DVI Support:

- Able to drive the industry's largest and highest resolution flat-panel displays up to 2560 x 1600.

NVIDIA® PureVideo® HD Technology

- The combination of high-definition video decode acceleration and post-processing delivers unprecedented picture clarity, smooth video, accurate color, and precise image scaling for movies and video.

HDCP Capable

- Designed to meet the output protection management (HDCP) and security specification of the Blu-ray Disc and HD DVD formats, allowing the playback of encrypted movie content on PCs when connected to HDCP-compliant displays.

HDMI 1.3a Support

- Fully integrated support for HDMI 1.3a including xvYCC, Deep color and 7.1 digital surround sound.

OpenGL® 3.2 Optimization and Support

- Ensures top-notch compatibility and performance for OpenGL applications.

OpenCL Support:

- Full support for OpenCL GPU computing API

DirectCompute Support:

- Full support for DirectCompute, Microsoft's GPU computing API

About Palit

Established in 1988, Palit Microsystems Ltd is well-known for manufacturing stable, excellent, and innovative graphics accelerators and motherboards. As one of the top PC components manufacturers, Palit continues to provide industry-leading graphics cards and motherboards with reliable and excellent quality. With branch offices in America, Europe, and Asia, Palit has developed a worldwide sales network which cooperates closely with our customers.

Palit is well positioned to maintain an industry leadership due to the vast array of ATI™ and NVIDIA® products and on-going development efforts. Palit's worldwide facilities are ISO 9001 certified. All the Palit PC graphics accelerators and motherboards are with WHQL certification to ensure full compatibility.