Sparkle Computer updates slightly its offer by adding graphics accelerator card GeForce GTX 260 with a 1792 MB GDDR3 memory. The Charter has been equipped with 216 stream processors, 448-bit memory controller, SLI connector to create a configuration of 3-way SLI, and two DVI-D output.
New Sparkle child is working with 576 MHz clock frequencies, 1242 MHz and 2214 MHz (1998 MHz Reference) for the GPU, shader and memory units. The prices, unfortunately, was not disclosed.
Sparkle presents its new GeForce graphics cards GTX 260 – Caliber X260 and X260 HM. On the black, stylish and slightly modified PCB laminate installed 896 MB GDDR3 graphics memory. For the efficient management of memory corresponds to 448 – bit controller, and the activities related to the imposition of textures, shadows, etc., have been entrusted with 216 stream processors.
Was added to a set of application SPA Tune a quick and simple way to choose one of three predefined operating modes – “green”, the standard and podkręcony. In the “green” card works with the reduced clock frequencies – 400, 800 and 600 MHz for the GPU, shader and memory units. This treatment aims to reduce the download accelerator electric current. Read more…
The company has introduced the next generation of MSI N260GTX card with two fans and cooling system, Twin Frozr, consisting of 5 tubes heat (heatpipes), providing high stability even at very high load. New MSI cards are equipped with 896MB of DDR3 memory 448-bit timing, and have a polymer capacitors, so that players can take full advantage of the possibilities of visual and audio games are compatible with DirectX 10
Recent Frozr Twin cooling system from MSI uses two automatically adjustable fans. The speed of rotation depends on the temperature of the core graphics (GPU), ensuring a very quiet work during normal operation, and during games, or 3D image processing. The presence of two fans, has two times better cooling, and the user does not need to worry that the deterioration in the case of the fan card is damaged. In this case, the function of cooling the card completely takes over the second fan, keeping the temperature of the card to work stable and safe level. Read more…
Fudzilla.com – We were shocked to learn that NVIDIA dropped GeForce GTX 260 price all the way to $169 and the cards are available at this price today at Newegg.
XFX is the one to blame, as it offers its reference-clocked card for $169.99, but only after $30 mail in rebate. EVGA, Sparkle and BGF wants a bit more for the card and they’ll charge you $179.99 to $183.99 for most or $200+ for much overclocked cards.
NVIDIA wants to pick up the sales of GTX 260 and to go against Radeon 4870, who is currently selling for $155 for 512MB version and $169 for 1GB version. With GTX 260 at this price point, you can imagine that the GTS 250 will get much cheaper. Read more…
Recently we wrote about a new, highly renewed GTX 260 from MSI. As it turned out the final version of the card will have a different version of cooling than thought before. Will continue to be two fans, but a new cooling system is also equipped with an LED display the speed of work and the GPU temperature.
In addition, the same as the previous card has also improved power supply section (8 +2 phase), D-Sub connector, DVI and DisplayPort, and 1792 MB of GDDR3 memory. Clocks are still not known, further details will become apparent during the fair. Later in the news several new product photos. Read more…
Soon, at the upcoming CeBIT Inno3D company will present its new graphics card – GeForce GTX 260 Series iChill.
The design consists of not reference cooling Arctic Cooling company. Cooling – Accelero Xtreme – was equipped (in addition to a large heatsink with five pipes) in three 92 mm fans.
According to the manufacturer, this arrangement has helped to lower the temperature of the entire system as much as 30 degrees, so that made it possible to increase the GPU clock to 620 MHz (576 MHz standard), 1350 MHz for cieniujących units, and memory (896 MB GDDR3, 448-bit) to 2100 MHz (1998 MHz). Read more…
MSI probably already at CeBIT 2009 will present a new world – rather unconventional graphics card equipped with a GTX 260 chip Attention will przykuwa niereferencyjny cooling system, control panel and the increased number of graphics memory – now it is up to 1792 MB of GDDR3.
In addition to the improved laminate contains a section of power (8 +2 phase), the new capacitors, which, according to the manufacturer will provide up to 5000 hours continuous operation, connector D-Sub, DVI and DisplayPort. An interesting fact is the previously mentioned control panel through which change the parameters of the cards – such as core voltage, memory, clock frequency and speed of fans.
Gainward informed that it will soon offer video cards will be extended to not reference version of the GeForce GTX 260 – Golden Sample marked. This is a twin structure model GTX 260 from Palit Sonic.
The new GTX 260 is not surprising since Gainwards equipment. It has a 55nm GPU with 216 stream processors made, 896MB memory and a standard set of DDR3 video connectors – 2 x DVI + HDTV. Clock timing is as follows: 620MHz core and 2200MHz for the memory (576MHz and 1998MHz standard). Responsible for cooling dualslot cooler with two fans.
We do not know anything yet about the price of cards
Galaxy has limited sell of their products on European markets, but Asian markets are good. It is possible to buy Galaxy’s new model GeForce GTX 260 + (216 SP), equipped with a not-reference cooling system.
The entire device takes up four slots, but this model has very good potential of overcloking. Standard clocks to 625 MHz for the GPU, 1350 MHz for shader units and effective 2100 MHz for memory. However, Chinese PCPOP service, could set them without any special effort to the values of 750 / 1575 / 2600 MHz (GPU / shader / memory) and the Core i7 processor (@ 2.8 GHz) has been the result of a team of OC in 3DMarku Vantage P14480. Read more…
The company announced the introduction of a new Palit cards belonging to the series of Sonic. New model will be GeForce GTX 260 216SP.
Made at the 55nm technology card will be pre-chilled podkręcona and better than previous versions. Clocks are to be on the card to 625MHz GPU, 1348MHz shader and 2200MHz for the 896MB RAM DDR3 (448-bit). Above the temperature will keep dwuslotowy cooling system, which is supported by two fans.
Of course, the card will support Microsoft’s latest API – DirectX 10, and technologies such as CUDA, 3-way SLI and PhysX.
Price of cards is unknown.
Fudzilla.com – At 675MHz out of the box. Xmas is around the corner, and EVGA has a special present in store – EVGA GTX 260 with 216 Shaders and 55nm. EVGA Europe just got them yesterday in its German headquarter and they are ready to ship them this week.
Most consumers will get these cards in first week of 2009 but we can say that it has finally arrived. The highest overclocked SKU works at 675MHz and it even has further overclocking potential. Read more…
Leadtek.com – Rising to the expectations of international gamers, Leadtek Research Inc., a global front runner in extreme visual graphics technology development, announces the upgrade of its graphics card, WinFast GTX 260 EXTREME+. Based on the NVIDIA GTX 260 chipsets, the enthusiastic graphics card has been upgraded to 216 stream processors and ready to bring users into an impressive new era.
Featuring the powerful GeForce GTX 260 GPU with upgraded 216 stream processors, WinFast GTX 260 EXTREME+ has a scorching GPU clock speed of 602MHz and GDDR3 896MB memory. GTX 260 EXTREME+ can power extreme HD gaming and entertainment, and also represent an effective shift of everyday processing tasks from the CPU to the GPU. Read more…
Reissuing graphics cards under the same name but with different specifications is quite common in the graphics market. Thus it is no surprise that NVIDIA chose to attack AMD’s Radeon HD 4870 with a GTX 260 that has a higher number of calculating units.
The GT200 GPU has access to ten Thread Processor Clusters (TPC) – each one with 24 ALUs and eight TMUs respectively TAUs. While the GeForce GTX 280 can access the full number, NVIDIA reduced the number to eight for the GTX 260. In order to close the gap to the Radeon HD 4870, the new GTX 260 will be delivered with nine TPCs. Therefore the overhauled GTX 260 has 216 ALUs and 72 texture units. This equals a theoretical performance benefit of 12.5 percent.
http://www.pcgameshardware.com/aid,660194/Reviews/PCGH_Review_NVIDIA_GeForce_GTX_260_with_216_ALUs/
As you guys know NVIDIA recently introduced an updated GeForce GTX 260. The Core 216 version, obviously referring to the 216 shader processors that are active and crunching data for you in that GPU, which is 24 shader processors more than the regular GTX 260.
Now I’ll leave the sketchy naming schema out of this review as much as I can, as honest to the one almighty, it’s getting so confusing. NVIDIA really needs to do something about it. But see this product tested today as a mild update to the previous GeForce GTX 260, to compete better with team red’s, the Radeon HD 4870.
See, that Radeon HD 4870 is a thorn in the green eyes of NVIDIA as pricing wise this thing just does wicked things. To adapt to ATI’s strategy, the GeForce GTX 260 can now be purchased for the same price as the Radeon HD 4870. But in a lot of scenarios, the HD 4870 is simply a tad faster.
Therefore NVIDIA was seeking for some more performance in the GTX 260 series — they needed to give it a little more bite. So NVIDIA unleashed its GeForce GTX 260 Core 216. And well, you are on Guru3D.com, where else do you need to be to get the latest lowdown and dirt on the new GPUs?
http://www.guru3d.com/article/evga-geforce-gtx-260-core-216-superclocked-review/
Nearly a year ago I wrote about something I called “sensible naming” with respect to GPUs. It was at the time of the Radeon HD 3800 series launch where AMD unveiled a much cleaner, simpler way of naming its cards. Gone were the suffixes (for the most part) and instead what we were left with was this:
A family name, Radeon HD, followed by a four digit number. With the exception of the X2s, AMD has stuck to its naming system without fault. In fact, AMD has done such a good job with keeping the names clean that things are the way they should be: the internal codenames are more difficult to remember than the actual names of the cards (e.g. RV770 vs. Radeon HD 4870).
NVIDIA however, just hasn’t gotten the hint. The GT200 launch gave us two simply named cards: the GeForce GTX 280 and GTX 260, but it didn’t take long for NVIDIA to confuse the marketplace with the launch of the GeForce 9800 GTX+. I hoped that the naming silliness was limited to the older GeForce 9 GPUs, but today it extended into the GTX lineup.
It’s called the GeForce GTX 260 Core 216.
The GeForce GTX 260 Core 216′s name is actually quite descriptive, albeit absurdly long. The GeForce GTX 260 part we already know from the GT200 launch, the Core 216 suffix just indicates that the GPU has 216 “cores” (also playing on Intel’s new Core i7 naming for Nehalem, due out later this year). Why NVIDIA didn’t just call it a GeForce GTX 265 or 270 is beyond me. To make matters worse, we’ll see companies adding their own suffixes to the already extended name. For example, EVGA sent us their Core 216 called the EVGA GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 Superclocked Edition. Perhaps it’s some conspiracy to increase the salary of writers who get paid by the word.
http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=3408
NVIDIA is at it again – releasing updates of GPUs under exactly the same name as the previous GPU. After the craziness of the 512MB GeForce 8800 GTS, NVIDIA today launches the GeForce GTX 260. Again. Except that this GTX 260 has more stream processors than the old one.
The big news is that the new GTX 260 has more stream processors than the old one – 216 rather 192 – although this is still less than the GTX 280, which has 240. The rest of the 260′s specs remain the same, including the manufacturing process, which still uses 65nm transistors despite rumours to the contrary. Current pricing puts new GTX 260 cards as costing from £220 to £250 inc VAT – check out our news story reporting where to buy cards.
The new GTX 260 isn’t replacing any of NVIDIA’s current line-up. Instead, it’s designed to beat the massively impressive ATI Radeon HD 4870. This means that if you have a GeForce GTX 260 and fancy buying a second for SLI, you should be able to do so for the foreseeable future.
http://www.custompc.co.uk/reviews/604863/bfg-geforce-gtx-260-maxcore-ocx.html
NVIDIA first introduced the GeForce GTX 200 series in the middle of June, where it announced two new graphics cards—the GeForce GTX 280 and GTX 260. At the time, both cards were introduced at high price points and in some ways it felt like neither product was doing enough to justify the price.
The GeForce GTX 280 was the fastest single GPU card on the market, but it was occasionally outperformed by NVIDIA’s GeForce 9800 GX2 – a card that came in at around £100 less than the new flagship product. The GeForce GTX 260, at the time, was over priced at around £230 because the Radeon HD 4870 launched shortly afterwards at well under £200 and in many cases it actually outperformed NVIDIA’s second-fastest card.
During NVIDIA’s second quarter earnings call, president and CEO Jen-Hsun Huang admitted that his company had “miscalculated” and “underestimated” the competition coming from AMD. Thankfully, for the sake of competition, NVIDIA lowered the prices on both the GeForce GTX 260 and GTX 280 to make things interesting once more.
http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/2008/09/25/bfg-tech-geforce-gtx-260-ocx-maxcore/1
When launched in June of this year, NVIDIA’s GeForce GTX 280 became the fastest single-GPU card around. That’s still largely true today, because it took ATI two GPUs to comprehensively beat it with the release of the single-card Radeon HD 4870 X2.
NVIDIA’s pricing for its high-end GPUs has been dropping steadily since the launch, with the GeForce GTX 280 available from around £250 now.
Still, that’s too expensive for most, so NVIDIA also released the GeForce GTX 260 – a cut-down version of GTX 280 – a short while after the range-topping model.
Benchmarking at around 70 per cent of the GTX 280′s performance, GTX 260 was a better bet for most readers, and price-dropping is such that it’s now available from £170 – a price at which it battles against ATI’s Radeon HD 4870.
Now, though, NVIDIA is looking to patch part of the performance deficit that exists in the GT200 family by releasing another GPU, and it’s called the GeForce GTX 260. Confused?
Read on to find out what the all-new ’260 offers and how its arrival impacts upon the high-end discrete graphics-card market.
http://www.hexus.net/content/item.php?item=15464
Ok, let’s face it. NVIDIA is going trough a pretty rough time. ATI pulled a rabbit out of their hat two months ago with their RV770 based graphics processors and pricing schema. It had to be the biggest surprise of this year. The entire business model from NVIDIA was changed at pricing level, the high end parts dropped over 150 to 200 USD in price, quickly the the GeForce 9800 GTX+ was introduced and all of a sudden the balance was restored … more or less.
See, that Radeon HD 4870 is still a tough nut to crack for NVIDIA as pricing wise this thing just does wicked things. To adapt to ATI’s strategy, the GeForce GTX 260 can now be purchased for the same price as the Radeon HD 4870. But in a lot of scenarios, the HD 4870 is simply a tad faster.
Therefore NVIDIA was seeking for some more performance in the GTX 260 series — they needed to give it a little more bite. And though I’m sure that yet another SKU will drive board-partners crazy, I say bring it on. We’re Guru3D, we dig more performance. Especially the version we test today. So NVIDIA today is introducing the GeForce GTX 260 Core 216. And well, you are on Guru3D.com, where else do you need to be to get the latest lowdown and dirt on the new GPUs?
Exactly. Head on over to the next page where we’ll tell you a thing or two about this product, and then we’ll review some actual retail samples, as yes; this product is available starting today, and it’s selling for 279 USD.
http://www.guru3d.com/article/geforce-gtx-260-core-216–bfg-ocx-maxcore/1
Going into the summer, NVIDIA must have felt pretty confident about their graphics lineup. Their G92 GPU had been adapted to run in a variety of cards ranging from the GeForce 8800 GS/9600 GSO all the way up to the dual GPU GeForce 9800 GX2. In each of these segments G92 was the unquestioned performance champ, and NVIDIA was still riding the wave of GeForce 8800 GT sales — the 8800 GT will probably go down as one of the most popular graphics upgrades of its era. Meanwhile NVIDIA was preparing to unleash a pair of new graphics cards to take on the high-end segment: the GeForce GTX 260 and the GTX 280.
http://www.firingsquad.com/hardware/nvidia_geforce_gtx_260_216shader/
