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    Zotac GeForce GTX 260 with 216 cores launched

    Posted on Tuesday, September 16 2008 @ 19:09:40 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck


    Zotac rolled out two new GeForce GTX 260 video cards with 216 shaders. The video card maker claims these 24 additional cores result in performance gains of up to 10 percent in the latest games. They have a GeForce GTX 260² with a 576MHz core, 1242MHz shaders and 1998MHz memory and a GeForce GTX 260 AMP²! Edition with 650MHz core, 1400MHz shaders and 2100MHz memory. Both models feature 896MB GDDR3 memory.
    Powered by 2nd Generation NVIDIA Unified Architecture, the 216-processor cores in the enhanced ZOTAC GeForce GTX 260² and GeForce GTX 260 AMP²! Edition deliver greater efficiency with up to 50-percent performance increases over the previous generation architecture for blazing-fast performance and brilliant visuals.

    Feeding the powerful 216-processor cores is 896MB of screaming-fast GDDR3 graphics memory that communicates with the GTX 260 GPU via a 448-bit wide memory bus for phenomenal communication speeds that’s ready to take on extreme high-definition gaming.

    NVIDIA PhysX technology enables the new enhanced ZOTAC GeForce GTX 260² and GeForce GTX 260 AMP²! Edition with absolute immersion in the latest PhysX enabled titles. NVIDIA PhysX technology enables the ZOTAC GeForce GTX 260² and GeForce GTX 260 AMP²! Edition to dedicate some of its massive graphics processing power to render realistic physics effects for a life-like in-game interactivity.


    Specifications:

    Product Name:

    ZOTAC GeForce GTX 260²

    ZOTAC GeForce GTX 260 AMP²! Edition

    GPU:

    NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260

    NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260

    Core Clock speed:

    576 MHz

    650 MHz

    Processor Cores

    216

    216

    Processor Clocks

    1242 MHz

    1400 MHz

    Memory Clock speed:

    1998 MHz

    2100 MHz

    Memory

    896MB GDDR3

    896MB GDDR3

    Memory interface:

    448-bit

    448-bit

    Cooling:

    Active

    Active

    DirectX™ version

    DirectX™ 10, Shader Model 4.0

    Other hardware features

    Dual Dual-link DVI, HDCP, NVIDIA PhysX ready, PureVideo HD technology

    HDCP:

    Yes

    Software Features:

    nView® Multi-Display

    Windows Vista capability

    Certified for Windows Vista with aero user interface




     
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