Turkish website DonanimHaber has uncovered news on HP's site about a Geforce 315 next-generation desktop card surfacing in the OEM channel. Information about the card was revealed within the company's product specifications page for the HP Pro 2000 Microtower PC. The system comes factory-equipped with an Intel G41-based motherboard with integrated GMA X4500 graphics. However, HP lists an optional discreet graphics processor variety to choose from, including the Nvidia Geforce 315 1GB ATX PCI-E x16. While complete information about this newly discovered GPU remains speculative at best, we do know that it is based on the 40nm GT216 core (GT216-200-A2), carries the codename 'D10M2-20,' supports DirectX 10.1 and is supposedly the OEM version of the recently launched Geforce GT 220. In specific, the Geforce 315 runs at identically the same speeds with a 625MHz core, 1360MHz shaders, and 1800MHz DDR3 memory. However, the memory has been doubled on this OEM card to 1GB of 128-bit DDR3, up from 512MB of 128-bit DDR3 on the stock version of the Geforce GT 220 (although several manufacturers supply 512MB and 1GB variants).

Nvidia's website also lists a GeForce 310, which, coincidentally, has the exact same specs as the GeForce 210: DirectX 10.1 support, 16 stream processors, a 589MHz core clock speed, 1402MHz shaders, 512MB of 500MHz DDR2 memory, a 64-bit memory interface, and a 30.5W power envelope.

When was the last time NV did a rollout of a new series that was actually all new? I don't think any of the 8000 series were rebadges. The sad thing about this is these cards were supposed to be out in early 2009 not the end. I think the lowend GT200's were available to OEMs but not for months and months after they were supposed to be...