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GeForce GTX 200 Series Architecture
Author: Gabriel Torres
Type: Articles Last Updated: June 16, 2008
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Released Models

As mentioned two models are being released at this moment: GeForce GTX 280 and GeForce GTX 260. Below you can see pictures of the reference model for these two cards – as you can see, they have the same external appearance. Both cards require two auxiliary power connectors, with GTX 280 requiring one 6-pin connector and another 8-pin connector and GTX 260 requiring two 6-pin connectors. Both video cards are based on PCI Express 2.0, naturally. So for best performance you must install them on a motherboard supporting PCI Express 2.0. Both of them support three-way SLI.

GeForce GTX 260
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Figure 7: GeForce GTX 260 reference model.

GeForce GTX 280
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Figure 8: GeForce GTX 280 reference model.

On the table below we summarize the main specs from these two cards.

Feature

GeForce GTX 280

GeForce GTX 260

Core clock

602 MHz

576 MHz

Streaming Processors (Shader Engines)

240

192

Streaming Processors Clock

1,296 MHz

1,242 MHz

Memory Clock (Real)

1,107 MHz

999 MHz

Memory Clock (DDR)

2,214 MHz

1,998 MHz

Memory

1 GB GDDR3

896 MB GDDR3

Memory Interface

512-bit

448-bit

TDP

236 W

182 W

MSRP

USD 649

USD 399

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