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The announcement of the geForce GTX 260 with 216 stream processors will take place on 16 September . Frequencies remained as before, just as the memory capacity 896 mb with the 448- bit bus. It was assumed that the increased by 5-10% performance will allow the geForce GTX 260 to successfully complete with the Radeon HD 4870.
Associate was able to test this video card and he reported that the quantity of stream processors is increased from 192 to 216 pieces, the quantity of textural blocks grew from 64 to 72 pieces. The number of ROP's blocks remained as before equal to 28 pieces.
The new model GeForce GTX 260 is based on the 65 nm video chip GT200-103- A2, whereas previous version was based on GT200-100-A2 chip. GDDR- 3 Memory with 896 mb volume communicates with the video chip using the 448- bit bus operating at 1998 MHz DDR frequency.
The new GeForce GTX 260 has two port MIO for 3- way SLI regime, and also two six-pin power connector. The energy consumption level with peak load is equal to 182 W, at the rest state it is reduced to 25 W. The cooler : coolerMaster TM71 uses four thermal tubes and the noise level is not more than 26-38 dB. The printed-circuit board p651 use 14- layer design.
If we speak about the test results , then the new version geForce GTX 260 actually exceeds the old on average by 5%. The success of the geForce GTX 260 will depend on the price policy of AMD and NVIDIA. Related Products :
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