A Closer Look

The cooler has remained the same big heatsink that is used on the GTX 260 and GTX 280. If you look closely you can see that two memory cooling spots are not populated which accounts for the memory difference from 1024 MB to 896 MB (compared to the GTX280).


You may combine two or three cards for SLI to improve framerates or graphics quality.


Just like the regular GTX 260, the GTX 260 AMP2 requires two six-pin PCI-Express power connectors.


The GDDR3 memory chips are made by Hynix and carry the model number H5RS5223CFR-N0C. With a latency of 1.0 ns they should be good for at least 1000 MHz.


This is NVIDIA's massive GT200 GPU, it comes with 1.4 billion transistors in a 65 nm process. Its die size of 576 mm² makes it the biggest and most expensive GPU produced to date. Please note that the metal you see is not the GPU die, but the heatspreader on top of it.