New GTX 260 on its way. Meant to challenge the HD 4850?

Posted By: Steve McBarnes - 02:08:24 Fri, August 22, 2008

Expreview is reporting that a new GTX 260 with 216 shaders (was 192) is in the works. I have added this card as the GTX 260+ so that we can compare it to the current GTX 260. I am not sure how many ROPs the new GTX 260 will have. The original 260 has 28 and the GTX 280 has 32 so maybe the GTX 260+ will have 30. In any case, I left it a 28 for now...

[H]ard|OCP just published a review of the Asus TOP GTX 260 (just about the fastest GTX 260 available) which showed the TOP GTX 260 trading blows with the HD 4870. The TOP performed better in Crysis and Age of Conan, but the HD 4850 allowed higher anti-aliasing in Call of Duty 4. Looking at those results, what will happen when the new GTX 260 battles the HD 4850 or HD 4870?

13 Comments

Friday, August 22, 2008 2:36:32 PM

swedxza
Member

Well thats good news :P the normal GTX 260 prices should go down.... anyway heared that NV plans to launch some 45 nm GPU with 2Tflops capabilities /drool

Friday, August 22, 2008 6:16:42 PM

unclesharkey
n00b

Big whoop! How about a day late and a dollar short. I have my 4850....nice try Nvidia.

Friday, August 22, 2008 9:42:32 PM

andrew2004gto
Member

then the 55nm with 216 shaders it will be called GTX 260 lol, this is my third time to edit, why does my go away, is someone taking it off lol i put GTX 260plus plus

Saturday, August 23, 2008 12:27:59 AM

SpacemanSpiff
n00b

Considering the current profit margin on the GTX200 line I would estimate that this card would have a higher MSRP but not drop the current GTX260 prices by a noticeable amount.

Saturday, August 23, 2008 11:20:09 AM

Radiator
Senior Member

2 Tflops is bullshit , most likely... unless they make a GTX280 GX2 ofcourse .

Saturday, August 23, 2008 11:44:24 AM

ultima
Senior Member

ya and unless they do a slight design change
to the 280

it'll only be about 1.8 Tflops as an X2 version

Saturday, August 23, 2008 11:09:02 PM

So much for nVidia's new and improved naming scheme. Why didn't they just call it a GTX 270 or something? I think GTX 260 will just confuse more people. Has nVidia gone haywire or just doesn't care about its customers anymore (or both)? Sometimes I wonder.

Sunday, August 24, 2008 6:13:07 AM

Syndicator
n00b

Actually, the HD 4870 allowed for higher AA. Not the HD 4850.

Sunday, August 24, 2008 4:09:59 PM

Die Auslese
n00b

Its it me or does the 260 (and 260 ) seem like a GTX280 that did'nt work at it full potential?

Monday, August 25, 2008 7:47:17 AM

Steve
The Progenitor

@Naito
I don't think I was clear enough. I have called this card the GTX 260 so that I could add it to the database. We don't know the official name yet.

Tuesday, August 26, 2008 3:06:10 AM

@Evil Incarnate
Sorry my bad. I should really stop reading articles late at night, even if it is on one of my favourite sites.

Tuesday, August 26, 2008 7:33:55 PM

Headfoot
Senior Member

I don't recall seeing any reviews in which the GTX 260 was competing with the 4850. I have only seen reviews where it competes with the 4870, trading blows. When overclocked (Check HardOCP's review of the Asus TOP GTX 260) it is the definite victor.

Wednesday, August 27, 2008 10:50:36 AM

Radiator
Senior Member

@Die Auslese - that's exactly the thing , the GTX260's are GTX280's , that didn't pass the inspection , so they were cut down so they'd work .
@ultima - nVidia would have to be thoroughly stupid to keep it at 65nm and then make a GX2 sandwich out of it .
When I said GTX280 GX2 , I meant the 55nm version , or the 40 nm version .
As for the headline , how on earth is the GTX260 with an extra enabled cluster supposed to challenge the HD 4850 ? It's neither in the same power envelope nor pricerange .

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