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Zotac GeForce GTX 260 'Amp' Edition

Roydon Cerejo, Jul 10, 2008 1206 hrs IST

Another powerful beast from NVIDIA. Will it offer better VFM compared to the GTX 280? Read on to find out more.

Expert Rating:

Good performance with AA, Effective cooler, Supports PhysX and CUDA.

Expensive, Power hungry.

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EXPERT REVIEW

Today we have the GTX 280's smaller sibling with us, the GTX 260 from Zotac. This card comes from their 'Amp Edition' line up, which are factory overclocked. The XFX GTX 280 that we reviewed earlier, performed well, particularly in games like Crysis with high AA. On the flip side it costs a bomb, so wasn't a very feasible solution for your HD gaming needs. Since the GTX 260 and the GTX 280 have the same GT200 core, I expect it to perform similar to the GTX 280, while costing a lot less. There's only one way to find out, so let's start by checking out the specs of the card.

Specifications

The core of the GTX 260 is clocked at an impressive 650MHz compared to the stock clock of 576MHz. That's an increase of 74MHz, which should give you a nice 13% boost right out of the box. The memory is also overclocked to 2100MHz from the stock 1998MHz, giving you another 5% boost. I think both the core and memory can be pushed even higher, since the card has a very good cooler.

Some of the major differences between the GTX 280 and the GTX 260 lies with the no of shader units and the memory bus. The GTX 260 has 192 shader units running at a speed of 1400MHz. The memory bus width is 448-bit giving it a total bandwidth of 111.9 GB/sec. Compared to the GTX 280 which has 240 shader units and a 512-bit memory bus, the Zotac GTX 260 'Amp' Edition should be about 5-10% slower, which is acceptable. The rest of the features are the same as the GTX 280 and I'll list them here for your reference:

Hybrid Graphics Support

PCI-E 2.0

2 way/3 way SLI

GeForce PhysX

CUDA parallel processing

DirectX 10

USER COMMENTS

Is this G.Card Available in calcutta and what is its price ?

by dipak_07, Kolkata, on Oct 01, 2008 09:14 AM, Report abuse Reply

it fine

by moideen, india, on Jul 14, 2008 04:23 PM, Report abuse Reply

ZOTAC have 5 Years warranty, does BIG Galaxy have it...?? how could you say BIG Galaxy performance is better...any test result......?? so Please be optimistics with all brands

by Anonymous, Bangalore, on Jul 11, 2008 05:37 PM, Report abuse Reply

pls stop fooling customers, zotac gives only 3 years warranty and 2 years is said to be done on chargable basis,one dealer from banglore fooled me same way,pls stop doing all this cheap marketing of products

by suresh, banglore, on Jul 14, 2008 03:46 PM, Report abuse

BIG Galaxy card is good for graphic 3d animation and resultion also good and i have another brand also but i am statisficied BIG graphic cards only so go for big graphic cards

by balaji, vellore, on Jul 14, 2008 10:55 AM, Report abuse Reply

BIG galaxy graphic cards have much better performance then these cards and its very cheap

by rajesh, mumbai, on Jul 11, 2008 03:21 PM, Report abuse Reply

wat is its cost?? ne1??

by slayer, new delhi, on Jul 11, 2008 03:08 PM, Report abuse Reply

which is this brand.. never heard...

by Anonymous, Mumbai, on Jul 11, 2008 12:13 PM, Report abuse Reply