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Geeks3D Daily News Round-up (2009.01.06)

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“All 3D news you missed today in a single post!”

Today: Shapeways, Ardor3D, Platinum Arts Sandbox, GeForce GTX 285, Galaxy GeForce GTX 260 55nm, Sapphire Radeon HD 4870 Toxic, NVIDIA GT215, Edge Detection with Direct3D 10, Shadow Mapping and GLSL.


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EVGA GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 Superclocked Review

EVGA’s GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 is the new version of the GeForce GTX 260. This version adds 24 shader processors to the existing 192 (192+24=216).

The Geforce GTX 260 core 216 is in fact a GeForce GTX 280, with a small chunk of memory missing, and one shader cluster with 24 shader cores disabled. Other then that, there is just no difference whatsoever.
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So in general the Core 216 edition cards offer a small small step in performance over the regular GTX 260 products, but the faster clocked Core 216 products, darn it, that’s where value starts kicking in for sure.

Read the complete review here: EVGA GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 Superclocked review.

More news about GTX 260: GeForce GTX 260 @ Geeks3D

GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 Review

The new GeForce GTX 260 with 216 cores or shader processors is available and reviews about this card popup around the web. The GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 has the same specifications than the normal GTX 260 but differs in number of shader processors and texture units.

GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 Specifications:
– GPU: GT200 – Codename: G200-103-A2 – 65nm
– Shader Processors (cores): 216
– Texture Units: 72 (64 for GTX 260)
– ROPs: 28 (28 for GTX 260)
– GPU Clock: 576MHz
– Shader Clock: 1242MHz
– Memory: 896Mb GDDR3 / 448-bit / 999MHz
– DirectX 10 and OpenGL 2.1

Reviews:

GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 260 Review

TweakTown has reviewed GIGABYTE’s GeForce GTX 260.

Read the complete review here: GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 260 Graphics Card

If you want to get in on the GTX bandwagon but still find the 280 too expensive, the GIGABYTE 260 might be your answer.

TES 1326 Infrared Thermometer used to measure output temperature

Conclusion:

The GTX 260 is definitely a good card in this price bracket and for people on SLI based motherboards we know that two of these cards are just going to absolutely fly along for only slightly more than a single GTX 280.

XFX GeForce GTX 260 640M XXX Review

XFX’s GeForce GTX 260 640Mb reviewed at Hardware Secrets.
Read the full review HERE.

XFX GeForce GTX 260 640M XXX was up to 19% faster than the standard GeForce GTX 260, depending on the program and video configuration. You will achieve, on average, a 10% performance increase with this overclocked model from XFX, which is quite interesting, as it costs around 10% more than the standard GTX 260.

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280 & 260 @ Hardware.fr

[French]
Le site Hardware.fr nous propose depuis plusieurs déjà un dossier très complet et détaillé sur les nouvelles cartes 3D de NVIDIA, les GeForce GTX 260 et 280. L’architecture des nouveaux GPUs est expliqué, la consommation analysé, le tout suivi des tests “in game”.

L’article complet de 16 pages se trouve ICI.
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[English]
The Hardware.fr website has published since several days an excellent article about the architecture of the latest NVIDIA 3D cards, the GeForce GTX 260 and 280

Read the complete article HERE – (in french).
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