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Zotac Ready with GeForce GTX 260 (216 SP) Amp²!

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Only 1% slower than the GTX280 according to that review.

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:
 
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insider said:
Only 1% slower than the GTX280 according to that review.

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:
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Lol yes but thats an overclocked card against a vanilla 280 so in actual fact, a stock versus stock or an overclocked versus overclocked version would give a much bigger performance difference, noiw if you made the comparisons with a Zotac GTX260 AMP versus a Zotack GTX280 Amp then I would guess prolly bout 10% difference.
 
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Yeah I know but the majority at this end of the market always try squeezing the last inch of performance out of their cards.

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...
 
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Zubasa said:
Honestly I don't understand what they did in the testing, the settings seems to be all over the place to me.:respect:
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All [H] tests are like that. I think it's crap, but some people swear by it. Personally, I don't trust the settings changes they make. How do we know they are changing the optimal settings?
 
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Mussels said:
so if this GTX260 wtfpwns a 4870... damn. ATI must be behind in the single card sector.

896MB of 448 bit ram = WTH MAKE MY BRAIN HURT.
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Well, the card ended up sucking. (Not really, still a great card, not enough improvement to warrant upgrade over a gtx 260) I think I read the 4870 is still better in most cases. Not sure, so don't quote me lol.
 
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