Introduction

A few weeks back NVIDIA announced their GeForce GTX 200 series consisting of the GeForce GTX 280 and the GeForce GTX 260. The GTX 280 is without doubt the fastest graphics card on the market, but will also rip the biggest hole in your wallet. The GTX 260 is a cut down version of the GTX 280, which comes at a cheaper price point.
Compared to its big brother, the GTX 260 features only 192 shaders (240 on the GTX 280), 28 ROPs (GTX 280: 32) and 896 MB of graphics memory (GTX 280: 1024 MB). Also the clock speeds have been reduced a bit. Overall these changes result in a $200 cheaper card, which is about the price of a single HD 4850.

Point of View's GeForce GTX 260 is a complete implementation of the NVIDIA reference design. One highlight however is the included Assassin's Creed Full Game in the package, which is one of the top titles at the moment.