Today NVIDIA launches their updated GeForce GTX 260 Series. The new cards feature an increased shader count of 216 versus 192 on the “normal” GTX 260. Yet there is no new product name by NVIDIA, the product is still called GTX 260. I am not sure if this is a good move because it will [...]

NVIDIA Adds More Shaders to the GeForce GTX 260 A couple days ago the great and powerful forces over at NVIDIA launched a new graphics card called the GeForce GTX 260 Core 216.  This new graphics card was launched to fill the gap between the GeForce GTX 260 and GeForce GTX 280.  What gap might this [...]

I am sure that for many of you the title of this review comes as a bit of a shock since you were not expecting a revised GTX 260 for the next little while at least. Some people say that competition speeds development but in this case ATI’s introduction of their new 4800-series has prompted [...]

The initial release of the GTX-2XX series of GPU’s is still fresh in our memories and variants are already hitting the market. Usually we see a full blown variant and a less expensive little brother. Seldom do we see the full blown version, the little brother, then a ramped up version of the little brother. [...]

Introduction It is not uncommon for manufacturers to release updated versions of their products a few months after they hit the market, this normally means that the new version has a little extra memory or is configured to a higher speed. Occasionally it can also mean a move to an improved manufacturing process to reduce [...]

Introducing a new card with a familiar name Pulling out the Stops That old adage of “competition is good for consumers” is over played in my eyes; competition is GREAT for consumers.  Take today’s review for an example: compared to NVIDIA’s GeForce 8800 GTX, available in early 2007, the new GeForce GTX 260 card gets [...]

BFGTech GeForce GTX 260 OCX MAXCORE Today, BFGTech is launching its new and improved GeForce GTX 260 GPU based video cards. The new GeForce GTX 260 GPU benefits from 24 more stream processors, but maintains the same clocks. BFGTech has ramped up the clock speeds in OCX fashion. We evaluate and compare to the original [...]

In the conclusion of our coverage of the Radeon HD 4850 and 4870 launch, we made this statement, “…dare we say a $300 graphics card represents an excellent value, from a price point perspective? These cards are definitely going to put significant price pressure on NVIDIA’s GTX 200 series.” At the time, the GeForce GTX 280 [...]

The original nVidia GeForce GTX 260 had its premiere 16 June 2008. The first model was produced in a 65nm process and contain about 1.4 billion transistors. He had 192 stream processors and 896MB of memory DDR3. The new GeForce had its premiere three months after the original. At first it seemed that nVidia plans [...]