It's unfortunate then that the GTX 260 OCX Maxcore has been priced out of contention, because in actual fact there's not a lot wrong with it. It delivers more performance than the standard GTX 260 and it's not all that far off a GTX 280 in many scenarios. The only situations where it isn't is when you really start to tax that memory bus—either with high resolutions in graphic-intensive games, or with high levels of anti-aliasing—when the new GTX 260 starts to show a bit of a weakness.

The biggest weakness for the new GTX 260 though is its name – if not for the board partners then definitely for the all-important consumer. I hate to have to come back to this, but it wasn't until I started searching around retailers that I realised that BFG Tech currently has no less than seven different GeForce GTX 260 models. That makes for a bit of spaghetti not only for BFG, but also for the consumer – I mean, which GTX 260 should I, the consumer, buy when there are seven to choose from?



Link: Bit Tech