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Today sees NVIDIA release three new OEM graphics cards … although they’re not really new cards at all.

The three cards in question are the GeForce GT 340, GT 330 and GT 320. But let’s take a closer look … The GT 340 has a GPU humming along at 500MHz, 96 stream processors, 512MB or 1GB of RAM clocked at 1,700MHz, and DirectX 10.1 support. That sounds familiar … a lot like the GeForce GT 240.

Then there’s the GT 330. A 550MHz GPU, 1GB or 2GB of either DDR2 or DDR3 RAM and either 96 or 112 processor cores clocked to a maximum of 1,340MHz. This card is similar to a GeForce 9600 GSO and GeForce 9800 GT. Finally, the GT 320, a card that has a GPU running at 540MHz, 1GB of RAM running at 790MHz, 72 processor cores and DirectX 10.1 support. This doesn’t correspond directly to any card, but it’s still a mashup of 2xx-series technology.