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by Ryan-Smith (Jun, 2014)As the follow-up to R337’s significant DirectX overhaul R340 is far more low-key release that is focused on iteration and minor features, as reflected by NVIDIA’s release highlights and release notes.
by Slobodan-Simic (Jul, 2014)The biggest update for the Nvidia Geforce 340.52 WHQL graphics driver is the support for Nvidia GameStream technology for the new Shield tablet as well as the Shield portable hand-held gaming console.
Benchmarks Real world tests of the GeForce GT 340
PassMark Industry standard benchmark for overall graphics card performanceData courtesy Passmark
Cloud Gate Factor Data courtesy FutureMark
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| 29 Jul |
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The biggest update for the Nvidia Geforce 340.52 WHQL graphics driver is the support for Nvidia GameStream technology for the new Shield tablet as well as the Shield portable hand-held gaming console.
As expected, Nvidia has now released the new Geforce 340.52 WHQL-certified graphics driver which is a "game ready" driver for a couple of games, has some new SLI and 3D Vision profiles and brings support for GameStream technology for the recently launched Nvidia Shield tablet.
| 29 Jul |
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This driver is also being released as another on one of NVIDIA’s Game Ready drivers, this time for the forthcoming Metro: Redux and the China launch of Final Fantasy XIV.
| 17 Jun |
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NVIDIA is classifying this as their Game Ready driver for GRID: Autosport and the Battlefield: Hardline beta, while a few other games including The Elder Scrolls: Online and Watch Dogs have received either new or updated SLI profiles.
As the follow-up to R337’s significant DirectX overhaul R340 is far more low-key release that is focused on iteration and minor features, as reflected by NVIDIA’s release highlights and release notes.
| 22 Mar |
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xx GPU drivers for Windows will be the last to contain "enhancements and optimizations" for users with video cards based on architectures before Fermi.
From our DirectX 12 live blog, we also noticed that the new graphics API will, likewise, begin support at Fermi.
Specifications Full list of technical specs
gpu
| GPU brand | Nvidia |
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| GPU name | GT215 |
| Market | Desktop |
| Clock speed | 550 MHz |
| Is dual GPU | No |
| Reference card | None |
raw performance
| Shading units | 96 |
|---|---|
| Texture mapping units | 32 |
| Render output processors | 8 |
| Pixel rate | 4.4 GPixel/s |
| Texture rate | 17.6 GTexel/s |
| Floating-point performance | 257.3 GFLOPS |
memory
| Memory clock speed | 850 MHz |
|---|---|
| Effective memory clock speed | 1,700 MHz |
| Memory bus | 128 bit |
| Memory | 1,024 MB |
| Memory type | GDDR3 |
| Memory bandwidth | 27.2 GB/s |
noise and power
| TDP | 69W |
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