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Nvidia GeForce GTX 260
$329.00
Released June, 2008
The Pros:Very powerful chip. Relatively good Price/Performance for the C216 Version. Runs cooler than ATI's offering.
The Cons:Strong fall in performance in higher resolutions due to GDDR3. Two version available with significant performance difference but small seperation in price and bad marking of better products. Initial Version with only 192 Shader processors and very weak price/performance. (No longer produced but still in stores).
The GeForce GTX 260 is Nvidia's 10th generation graphics card specification and their current high end model, next to the top-of-the-line offering, the GTX 280. Built on a 65nm process, the GTX 260 is the exact same as the 280, only clocked at a lower speed with specific parts of the chip disabled for stability and differentiation.
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Containing the largest GPU ever constructed to date the GTX 260 has 1.4 billion transistors on a 575mm^2 die. Introduced at $399 dollars, the GTX 260 has seen a great deal of competition from cheaper and arguably superior offerings from AMD/ATI, such as the Radeon 4870 and more recently 4850x2/4870x2. Today the GPU has a MSRP of $329.
Features
- Core clock speed: 576MHz
- Stream Processors: 216
- Shader clock: 1242MHz
- Memory bus: 448bit
- Memory: 896MB DDR3, 1998 MHz
- Memory bandwidth: 111.9GB/s
- Power consumption (idle/full load): 119W/182W
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Pros & Cons
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Relatively good Price/Performance for the C216 Version.
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Runs cooler than ATI's offering
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Strong fall in performance in higher resolutions due to GDDR3
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Two version available with significant performance difference but small seperation in price and bad marking of better products.
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Initial Version with only 192 Shader processors and very weak price/performance. (No longer produced but still in stores)
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Weaker performance than 4870 1GB and higher price
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Poor price/performance ratio
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