Nvidia has a long history of selling older technology under a new and shiny name to make it more compelling to the less informed customer. The most recent example is the Geforce 405, a supposedly OEM-only model, that is using apparently a GT218-like chip and is not even capable of the same API-level features that Nvidia hypes about it's namesakes of the Geforce 400 series, namely Tessellation, Compute Shader 5.0 and the whole rest of DirectX 11 exclusive technology.
As the respective product pages in english and german imply, the card is clocked at 589 MHz and comes with a mere 16 Shaders dubbed Cuda-cores running at 1402 MHz (further indicating that it's not Fermi-based because those run at a strict 1:2 ratio between main and hot clock. The DDR3-memory is large but slow as is tradition with entry-level cards.
Please, Nvidia, stop this madness. It only hurts your reputation.
The rest of the tragedy can be seen in the screen grabs of the Nvidia product pages below - and also what card this one's most probably based on. Don't mind the typos attributing a non-existent shader-model 3.1 to it, probably 4.1 is what this card is really capable of.
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