The creased GeForce GTX 260 arrives in mid-September

NVIDIA is trying to fight not only in price but also in performance with AMD’s superbly tailored product, the ATI Radeon HD 4870.

NVIDIA though, from an initial $ 399 to 299 in a short time reduced the price of the GeForce GTX 260, however, this in itself is not much compared to the ATI Radeon HD 4870, which is in the same price category, but performs better than the aforementioned VGA in almost every case. Aware of this, the "greens" decided that a on June 16 the presented video card is already "refreshed".

Thanks to the "operation", the number of texturizers increased from 64 to 72, and the number of shader units increased accordingly from 192 to 216 — one TPC (Texture Processing Cluster) contains 24 shaders. This is the end of the series of "innovations", since everything else remains the same: 576/1242/1998 MHz clock signal trio, 448-bit memory bus, 896 MB GDDR3 memory. As a result of the modifications, the computing power of the GTX 260 increased from 715 to 804 GFlops, which means an "improvement" of 12,5%.

What this is enough for compared to the HD 4870 is questionable, but remember, the launch will start in mid-September. HD 4850 X2 also, its suggested retail price will be $ 399, which is the same as the GTX 260, but it’s almost certain which of the two will perform better during the tests.