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Compared to a similar DDR3 9500GT part this has improved creditably in 3D performance due to the upping the clocks' and additional Shader or Fragment Pipelines or Cuda Cores... whatever; they up'd it to 48 from 32. Although, hardly something you'll get for gaming a 1680X1050... Ben!
The 40Nm chip is a little more efficient given the higher clocks. Actually it's more akin to the newer 55Nm 128-Bit 9600GSO in a lot of specification, while comparing power this 40Nm is improved. Probably the most notable addition is Dx10.1 support and support for HDMI audio; however, not by means of integrated audio processor, but a HDA or SPDIF header must be connected from an audio source. Can you say cheap?

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=nvidia_gt_220&num=1

This is over-priced and too-little-to-late, not even able to compete with a 4670 (last years part) while AMD will drop the hammer with the Cedar and Redwood in another month.
While Ben leave the color and comments to the pundit's.

And now this from the Green Teams marketing "Power Trip" while wearing those red/green glasses
It appears their delusional... their calling it "Premium Windows 7 Experience" but didn't make it Dx11 compliant part?

http://www.nvidia.com/object/product_geforce_gt_220_us.html

so basically this is a piece of doggy poo that probably shouldnt have ever been released except for those sad saps that cant get their amd cards to work in linux?

#3 -- Correct!