Over a year and a half – that’s how long the GeForce 8800 GTX remained in the position of what could be called NVIDIA’s high-end GPU. Oh of course, six months after its release and – just a coincidence – just before the arrival of the R600 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R600 , we did get an 8800 Ultra [...]

NVIDIA GT200 Architecture Introduction It’s been a long time coming – despite NVIDIA’s assurances that G92 was more than just a die shrink of the well accepted G80 architecture we knew better. G92 was, and continues to be, a great GPU for your dollar but we are hungry for something new, something that would really [...]

NVIDIA has held  a dominant position in the high-end GPU space ever since the introduction of the G80 architecture back in November of 2006.  When the G80 first arrived in the form of the GeForce 8800 GTX and the pared-down GeForce 8800 GTS, the cards were clearly superior to anything else at the time in [...]

Just when you thought it was safe to go back into Crysis… No sooner had we finished our in-depth game benchmarking of this summer’s latest graphics cards and architectures, then the first pre-overclocked partner cards began to arrive. Claiming performance increases of up to 12 percent, we decided to put these warranty covered overclocks to [...]

Introduction When a new graphics card comes out, I tend to do the TweakTown review and then have a look around and see what some other reviewers thought of the card. However, I’ve been so busy lately with the new release of the HD 4800 series from AMD and the GTX 280 from NVIDIA that [...]

Features & Specifications The PNY GTX 260 is a stock clocked video card with a core clock of 576 MHz, a shader clock of 1242MHz, and a memory clock of 2000MHz. The card has 192 shader cores and 896MB of DDR3 and a 448-bil memory interface. The PNY GTX 260 has dual DVI outputs and [...]

New NVIDIA GTX 200 graphics architecture is just as interesting as the recently announced ATI Radeon HD 4800 that is why it deserves thorough and detailed discussion. Today we are going to talk about the results of synthetic benchmarks obtained from Gainward GeForce GTX 280 and Leadtek GeForce GTX 260. We have already discussed in [...]

The GTX 280 is, on average, the fastest single graphics card you can currently buy but it also comes with a seriously hefty price tag, which most of us would simply never consider stretching to pay. This fact was driven home with all the subtlety of a sledgehammer by ATI, just a week or so [...]

Introduction Like the GTX 280 which has dropped in price over the last few weeks, the GTX 260 has followed suit. Whether you’re a fan of ATI or not, the release of the HD 4800 series and their performance to price ratio has forced NVIDIA to cut margins on the new GTX line-up of cards [...]

The GTX 260 has been overlooked. Passed over as a cut-down 280, you’d expect it to be lame, poorly-bred video card. The way I see it, it kicks like a mule. Yes, it’s true, the 260 was once a die intended to become a 280, but the flaws which frustrated it are, perhaps unintentionally, its [...]

This year has been one to remember for video card enthusiasts. On the red side of the fence there have been the three series X2 models, the release of the 3400 series that can be used in hybrid Crossfire X with the added HTCP benefits. Just recently, the red camp released the 4xxx series to [...]

NVIDIA launched the GeForce GTX 280 and GTX 260 graphics cards on June 17, 2008. Both are based on the NVIDIA GT200 GPU which uses NVIDIA’s improved, second-generation unified architecture. The new GT200 GPU, features amongst other things : 240 stream processors Twice the number of registers Fast local 16k shared memory (per cluster of [...]

Back in the middle of June, NVIDIA released their highly anticipated GTX200 series GPU’s. With a 65nm manufacture process and a whopping 1.4 billion transistor count, the flagship GTX280, as reviewed by Overclock3D, was without doubt one of the most technically advanced GPU’s we’d seen in quite some time. However, despite the rather large jump [...]

We’ve already looked at nVidia’s flagship product- the GeForce GTX 280 and today we have the more affordable GTX 260 card- two of them actually. Both these cards are overclocked out of the box giving better performance than your stock card would. Like most of their previous overclocked cards, ASUS called their product the TOP [...]

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280/GTX 260 Performance Preview [ GeForce GTX 280 reference board @ 1600 x 1067 ] > View Full-Size in another window.First launched in May 2007, the GeForce 8800 Ultra is still the fastest single GPU on the planet over one year after its original release. At the time we were pretty under [...]

One-Point-Four-Billion. That’s transistors folks. The chip is codenamed GT200 and it’s the successor to NVIDIA’s G80 and G92 families. Why the change in naming? The GT stands for “Graphics Tesla” and this is the second generation Graphics Tesla architecture, the first being the G80. The GT200 is launching today in two flavors, the die of [...]

Since the release of the 8800 GTX NVIDIA has consistently had the best performing high end graphics cards and with every passing product release (up to and including the 9800 GX2) they have pushed performance even further, in some cases adding new features such as more effective video acceleration. Currently the fastest performing dual GPU [...]

NVIDIA’s next-gen GPU has arrived. We game with BFG Tech’s new GeForce GTX 280 OC in Crysis, Age of Conan, COD 4, and Assassin’s Creed. We’ve included the GeForce GTX 260 as well. Real gameplay advantages are to be had, especially in the brand new Age of Conan. In November of 2006, NVIDIA unveiled its [...]