Sunday, September 14th 2008
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GeForce GTX 260 with 216 Stream Processors Pictured, Benchmarked
NVIDIA is dressing up a new version of the GeForce GTX 260 GPU as reported earlier, with a revision that carries 216 shader units (against 192 for the original GTX 260). Chinese website Bear Eyes has pictured the new GPU. Other than the increased shader count, that should provide a significant boost to the shader compute power, other GPU parameters such as clock speeds remain the same. The core features 72 texturing units and 28 ROPs. The core is technically called G200-103-A2 (the older core was G200-100-A2). The card reviewed by Bear Eyes was made by Inno3D, called GeForce GTX 260 Gold. This shows that the GTX 260 brand name is here to stay.The card continues to have a 448-bit wide GDDR3 memory bus with 896 MB of memory. This card features 1.0 ns memory chips made by Samsung. On to the benchmarks, and NVIDIA finally manages to comprehensively outperform the Radeon HD 4870 512M in its category. Benchmark graphs for (in the order) 3DMark Vantage, Company of Heroes: Opposing Fronts (without and with AA at 1680x1050 px), and Crysis, are provided below. To read the full (Google Translated) review, visit this page.
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Bear Eyes
83 Comments on GeForce GTX 260 with 216 Stream Processors Pictured, Benchmarked
Still think this was a pointless move on Nvidia's part.
If ATI wouldn't came with HD 4000 series, we were still going to pay 500 $ for GTX 260!
edit: tested with High my self and GPU score: 3660, so mighty fast those cards are.
It is amazing to see how much improvement there is by just "unlocking" 24 shaders....
Beareyes Review as mentioned earlier by mascaras
Results I've seen from reviewers aren't favorable on the new 260
Now maybe this will push the GTX260 to around $200.00, then have the GTX260gold $235.00, thats about the only way they can keep ATI down at this price point.
I wanted DX10.1 on this card, and DDR5, guess im waiting till 09 for new cards.
this is the flawed logic I see all over now days, if ATI wins 1 and NV wins 5 ppl cheer ATI is king.
Just like the HC review 10 games were tested NV won 5, ATI 3, 2 were CPU bound and a tie, ppl still clamed ATI won.
The later portion of your post has no merit to my post. I never implied or made mention to the ATI cards being better. I was making an opinion on the new 260. Funny how you completely overlooked this post :rolleyes:
Your right its not a huge jump, but its better then the gtx260, and IMO better then the 4870.