Zotac's GeForce GTX 260 AMP²! Edition is a pretty good card in many respects, because it delivers good performance across the board and you'll get class-leading performance in games like Crysis and there's also an increasing push from Nvidia on things like PhysX and CUDA - features that will enable you to use your graphics card for more than just graphics. However, the situation gets a little murkier once you move away from that particular title and although there are benefits to CUDA, they're not going to be appreciated by everyone - it's still very early days for CUDA and so it's hard to judge the value of it figuratively at this moment in time.

When it comes to gaming performance, it trades blows with the Radeon HD 4870 1GB - there are a few games where the Zotac GTX 260 AMP²! Edition outclasses the Radeon and vice versa. In the remaining titles, the two are fairly evenly matched at resolutions where the frame rate might become an issue when it comes to achieving playability.



Link: Bit Tech