And again we return to California. NVIDIA continues to roll out new products with tenacity to be respected by other companies. The novelties differ only in the number of unified shader processors. There were cards with 32, 64, 96, 112, or 128 of them. Now we also have products with 192 and 240 shader processors. What’s left: 192-24 = 168, 168-24 = 144, and 192+24 = 216. Each different by 20 bucks, such products will make the series complete and suitable for all occasions. Each solution should bear one of these suffixes: “+”, “++”, “Super+”, “Great+”, “GTXer”, and “GTXest” along with marketing cliches about revolutional technologies. When this vocabulary is finally depleted, they can stop and think about inventing something new.

Anyway, today we are going to review a graphics card that has the same dimensions and weight as the GTX 280, but it has a narrower bus and fewer unified processors. Besides, it’s noticeably cheaper. Meet the GeForce GTX 260.

Since GTX 280 is priced too high, while the GTX 260 doesn’t exceed 400 USD, the latter will probably be more popular. Let’s see what exactly it can offer for these money