NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 Core 216: EVGA, Zotac @ HotHardware.com

news · September 16, 2008

Hello Everyone,

In the conclusion of our coverage of the Radeon HD 4850 and 4870 launch, we

posted 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 and GTX 260 were selling for upwards of $650 and

$400 respectively, and ATI's newly released Radeon, which performed somewhat

better than the GTX 260, was introduced at "only" $299.

Of course, NVIDIA quickly responded with a hefty round of price cuts that

brought the GTX 280's price down considerably and put the GTX 260 and Radeon

HD 4870 on roughly equal footing, but it turns out NVIDIA wasn't quite done.

Today NVIDIA is introducing an updated GeForce GTX 260 card with more stream

processors and texture filtering units than its predecessor. The name of the

new GPU is the GeForce GTX 260 Core 216, due to the GPU's allotment of 216

stream processors--up from 192 in the first-gen GeForce GTX 260. We've got

a couple of the new GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 cards in-house from EVGA and

Zotac, and took them for a spin. Come on by the site and check them out...

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 Core 216: EVGA, Zotac:

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