Monday, September 15th 2008
Zotac Ready with GeForce GTX 260 (216 SP) Amp²!
NVIDIA is preparing the launch of a revised GeForce GTX 260 graphics processor that has 216 shader units. Early performance evaluations show that the card is NVIDIA's sharp retaliation to the Radeon HD 4870 GPU, and it manages to outperform it comprehensively (covered here). Zotac is ready with a factory overclocked card based on the new GPU, The Zotac GeForce GTX 260 AMP²!. One way to differentiate this from the Amp! model based on the older GTX 260 core is the superscript "²" next to "AMP".
The card continues to use two 6-pin PCI-Express power connectors, it continues to have 896 MB of GDDR3 memory across a 448-bit wide memory bus. Clock speeds are stepped up. The speeds are 650 MHz / 1400 MHz / 1000 MHz (core/shader/memory) against the reference speeds of 576 MHz / 1242 MHz / 999 MHz. This product should be out by the end of this month.
Source:
Donanimhaber
The card continues to use two 6-pin PCI-Express power connectors, it continues to have 896 MB of GDDR3 memory across a 448-bit wide memory bus. Clock speeds are stepped up. The speeds are 650 MHz / 1400 MHz / 1000 MHz (core/shader/memory) against the reference speeds of 576 MHz / 1242 MHz / 999 MHz. This product should be out by the end of this month.
30 Comments on Zotac Ready with GeForce GTX 260 (216 SP) Amp²!
First we see nVidia forcing multiple massive price drops for all their GTX260/280 cards, then by releasing this revision with identical model name and rendering the entire existing stocks of GTX260's obsolete (with price reductions coming) all which further cuts into their profits.
If that wasn't bad enough the latest GTX260 means:
GTX280 = Dead/obsolete all those unsellable GTX280 cards :D
Way to seriously piss off all the manufacturers! :nutkick:
Complete failure in their business strategy, assuming they still have one, talk about killing two birds with one stone. :roll:
Anyway seriously bad news for the manufacturers good news for the consumers, might even tempt ATI to drop the price of their cards a little since their GPU's are considerably cheaper to produce hence higher profit margins...