Palit GeForce GTX 260 Sonic 216 SP 896 MB

Introduction

The NVIDIA GTX 260 has been on the market for quite a while. It was followed by the GTX 260 with 216 shaders to combat ATI's offerings at that time. Now NVIDIA has given permission to their add in board partners to create custom PCB and cooling designs to further diversify their product range.

Palit's GTX 260 Sonic comes in the 216 shader flavor with higher clock speeds out of the box. The cooling system has also been completely revamped to employ Palit's Revolution cooler, yet still uses two slots in your motherboard. What is very uncommon for NVIDIA graphics card is the PCB color which can only be described as ATI red - yes it still looks good. Not only the PCB color has been changed, but large sections of the PCB layout have also been customized, most probably to reduce cost.

	GeForce 9800 GT	Radeon HD 4850	GeForce 9800 GTX	GeForce GTX 260	Radeon HD 4870	Palit GTX 260 Sonic	GeForce GTX 280	Radeon HD 4870 X2	GeForce GTX 285	GeForce GTX 295
Shader units	112	800	128	192	800	216	240	2x 800	240	2x 240
ROPs	16	16	16	28	16	28	32	2x 16	32	2x 28
GPU	G92	RV770	G92	GT200	RV770	GT200	GT200	2x RV770	GT200b	2x GT200b
Transistors	754M	956M	754M	1400M	956M	1400M	1400M	2x 956M	1400M	2x 1400M
Memory Size	512 MB	512 MB	512 MB	896 MB	512 MB	896 MB	1024 MB	2x 1024 MB	1024 MB	2x 896 MB
Memory Bus Width	256 bit	256 bit	256 bit	448 bit	256 bit	448 bit	512 bit	2x 256 bit	512 bit	2x 448 bit
Core Clock	600 MHz	625 MHz	675 MHz	576 MHz	750 MHz	625 MHz	602 MHz	750 MHz	648 MHz	576 MHz
Memory Clock	900 MHz	993 MHz	1100 MHz	999 MHz	900 MHz	1100 MHz	1107 MHz	900 MHz	1242 MHz	999 MHz
Price	$110	$140	$160	$240	$190	$250	$315	$425	$350	$500