nvidia geforce gtx 280/260

 

As expected, today NVIDIA company publicly announced the withdrawal on the market two high-performance graphics adapters GeForce GTX 280 and GeForce GTX 260, based on established on 65 - nm chip technology masthead GT200.

Both solutions are aimed primarily at the most demanding users of modern lovers 3D-games and computer enthusiasts-overclocker. According to the developers, through the use of second-generation unified architecture and implementation support physical engine PhysX, their brainchild to fully allow those present to enjoy the incredible realism in the game environment complex special effects, as well as provide an unprecedented clean images, smooth video, accurate transmission of colors and flexible scaling when displaying video images.

NVIDIA GeForce GTX model 280 is built on 14 - layer printed circuit board, while NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260, she 12 - layer. In doing so, each of accelerators equipped active air cooling system, uses the bus PCI Express 2.0 x16, compatible with DirectX 10.0 Shader Model 4.0 and OpenGL 2.1, “friendly” with technologies NVIDIA PureVideo HD Technology, NVIDIA CUDA Technology, NVIDIA HybridPower Technology and NVIDIA SLI Technology (2 configurations allowed organization-Way SLI and 3-Way SLI), as well as equipped with a pair of DVI connectors and one HDTV-output. As for the main differences products, they are presented below.

Features NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280:

  •      Working frequency graphic kernel: 602 MHz frequency;
  •      The number of streaming processors: 240;
  •      The frequency of the Shader blocks: 1296 MHz;
  •      Memory: GDDR3 volume 1024 Mb;
  •      memory interface: 512 bits;
  •      Memory Bandwidth: 141.70 Gb / s;
  •      Good memory frequency: 2214 MHz;
  •      Power consumption: 236 W;
  •      Connectors nutrition: a 6 - contact and one 8 - contact.

Features NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260:

  •      Working frequency graphic kernels: 576 MHz;
  •      The number of streaming processors: 192;
  •      The frequency of the Shader blocks: 1242 MHz;
  •      Memory: GDDR3 volume of 896 Mb;
  •      memory interface: 448 bits;
  •      Memory Bandwidth: 111.9 Gb / s;
  •      Good memory frequency: 1998 MHz;
  •      Power consumption: 182 W;
  •      Connectors nutrition: two 6 - contact.

Finally want to point out that options GeForce GTX 280 from some well-known manufacturers of video cards we already have been seen in European online stores, as we previously reported in our news groups.