Galaxy GeForce GTX 260+ OC Graphics Card Review

When NVIDIA launched their GT200 GPU and the first two graphics cards based on it - the GeForce GTX 280 and the GeForce GTX 260, they thought they had ATI licked for good. In fact, they originally pegged the GeForce 9800 GTX+ as the direct competitor to ATI's forthcoming (at that time) Radeon HD 4870 graphics card. Unfortunately, NVIDIA grossly underestimated the ATI Radeon HD 4870, which not only roundly trounced both the GeForce 9800 GTX+ and the GeForce GTX 260, but was also more than a match for the GeForce GTX 280. As the GeForce GTX 260 was slower than the ATI Radeon HD 4850, NVIDIA came up with an "improved" GeForce GTX 260. The new GeForce GTX 260 comes with 216 stream processors, 24 more than the original GeForce GTX 260. This gave it a small 12.5% boost in texture fillrate while everything else remained the same. This small improvement, however, gave the GeForce GTX 260 new life and allowed it to better compete with the Radeon HD 4850.

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