Tuesday, December 30th 2008
EVGA Makes its 55nm GeForce GTX 260 Lineup Official, Intros SSC Variant
About a week into its market introduction, EVGA today made its 55nm GeForce GTX 260 graphics cards lineup official. The company also introduced a premium Super-Superclocked (SSC) variant of the said card. While having identical reference clock speeds to those of the 65nm GeForce GTX 260 Core-216 lineup, the new lineup offers higher energy efficiency and improved thermal characteristics.
The SSC variant introduced has clock speeds of 675 MHz (core), 1,458 MHz (shader) and 2,304 MHz (memory). It is backed by the EVGA limited lifetime warranty. EVGA also disclosed the suggested retail prices for the entire lineup (North American region) in its press-release, so you know which prices to buy them at: US $259.99 for the base model (896-P3-1255-AR), $269.99 for the Superclocked model (896-P3-1257-AR) and $289.99 for the SSC model (896-P3-1258-AR).
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The SSC variant introduced has clock speeds of 675 MHz (core), 1,458 MHz (shader) and 2,304 MHz (memory). It is backed by the EVGA limited lifetime warranty. EVGA also disclosed the suggested retail prices for the entire lineup (North American region) in its press-release, so you know which prices to buy them at: US $259.99 for the base model (896-P3-1255-AR), $269.99 for the Superclocked model (896-P3-1257-AR) and $289.99 for the SSC model (896-P3-1258-AR).
19 Comments on EVGA Makes its 55nm GeForce GTX 260 Lineup Official, Intros SSC Variant
man, i F****** hate waiting for things!
But when are they going to release it ? Because I checked their website, it says near the GPU image (Notify me)
I did see them listed as in stock on the USA evga web store
I can't wait to get my hands on this graphic card, EVGA FTW:respect:
I think they made it like this to help push old product, but yea no reason to buy this if you have a GTX200/4870 card.
With GT212 3-4 months away its kinda pointless, unless the prices come way down under $200.00
There are still a lot of people with 6800 and 8800 graphic cards , well not in this community I guess :laugh:
I think this is going to give me a huge boost in terms of the fps gain, from 8800GTS 320MB to GTX260 SSC edition, just wow.
And GT212 is going to be weaker than the GT200b, it is going to be the mid-range card of the GTX 200 series.Personally, I wait for the die shrink before buying. I had 9800GTX's up until about a week ago, when newegg offered 15% off for one day only for paying with paypal, so I decided to go to a GTX260, and I only did because I knew I could use my step-up to get the 55nm version.
With Evga, it's sometimes the better way to get a newer card just to set-up.. The reason for it, is that once a die-shrink, or a new series of cards come out, the pricing goes WAY down..
The 9800gx2 was a perfect example. Was $599 for the card, then you where seeing the week the GTX series came out, it went to $320 almost..
How do you know that gt212 will be slower than the gt200b?
The power consumption numbers are higher under load. Most likely due to the 4 power Phases on the 55nm vs. the 3 on the 65nm. Of course this also lead to better overclocking, which I am fine with.
It would be easier if they dropped old ones whn they bring out new revisions,but i guess they still want to make money on the older ones.