nVidia Launches GeForce GTX 200 Series
By Cássio Lima on June 16, 2008 - 5:00 PM Page 1 of 1

nVidia has just launched its newest graphics cards series, GeForce GTX 200. Two models were released today: GeForce GTX 280 and GeForce GTX 260. Both cards are PCI Express 2.0, support three-way SLI and 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.  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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