Sparkle breaks out two new graphics cards

TAIWAN-BASED GRAPHICS card manufacturer Sparkle has released two new graphics cards, the Calibre P960 Gbox and the Calibre P960G Gbox, though we can't for the life of us work out what the 'G' is for, or what the difference between the two is. Maybe you can help us out by looking at the press release?

Update: Scott from Sparkle has been on and told us the the 'G' version has 1GB of memory whereas the standard version had 512MB. Thanks also to a number of readers who were smart enough to work this one out.

Both cards come with a nifty chassis-mountable display panel which can be set to monitor any one of a number of running measurements, including fan speed and GPU temperature.

Overclocked out of the box, the new cards reportedly have a major boost in performance over the bog standard GeForce 9600GT on which the card is based, because of the use of a high quality MOS circuit and low-ESR solid aluminium capacitors.

The PCI Express 2.0 card offers DirectX 10 support, HDMI at 1080i and Dual Link DVI straight out of the box.

Pricing is not known as yet but the card is expected to come in at around the same price point as a standard 9600GT. µ

Tech Specs:

Model Number: Calibre P960 GBOX / Calibre P960G GBOX
Graphics Processing Unit: NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT
Core Clock: 700 MHz
Memory Type: 512MB GDDR3/ 1GB GDDR3
Memory Interface: 256-bit
Stream Processors: 64
Bus Type: PCI-Express 2.0
RAMDAC: 400 MHz
DVI-I: Dual DVI-I
HDTV: Resolution up to 1920 X 1080i
HDCP: Yes