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POV GEFORCE GTX 260 REVIEW

"Pov GeForce GTX 260 review also featuring the Gainward Radeon HD 4870. The Pov GeForce GTX 260 has a 25% lower clock speed than the Gainward Radeon HD 4870 and 45% lower memory speed. Another disadvantage the Pov GeForce GTX 260 has is that the Gainward Radeon HD 4870 has 73% more Pixel Shaders. However it's not all bad news for the Pov GeForce GTX 260 and it has 43% more memory than the Gainward Radeon HD 4870."

POV GEFORCE GTX 260

"Pov GeForce GTX 260 makes games including Unreal Tournament 3, Assassin’s Creed, Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare and S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky – feel like the real thing. High definition worlds crackle and hum with cinema-quality clarity. Lifelike characters behave with such realistic intensity that your palms sweat and your heart races. Objects react to the forces of nature exactly as nature intended. And with 50% better performance than previous generation graphics processors, you get it all...No lag. No dropped frames. No compromises. Beyond the field of play, the GeForce GTX 260 GPU seamlessly shifts intense processing tasks from the CPU to the GPU. Dive into the latest Blu-ray movie, run the Folding@home protein folding application to help cure diseases, browse your favorite web sites in 3D with PicLens or transcode video to a personal video player up to 7X faster than the CPU."

"Bus Type: PCI Express 2.0 (Backwards compatible with PCI Express)"
"Memory: 896MB GDDR3"
"Core Clock: 576MHz"
"Shader Clock: 1242MHz"
"Memory Data Rate: 1998MHz"
"Processor Cores: 216"
"Shader Model: 4.0"
"Texture Fill Rate: 36.9 Billion/sec."
"Memory Interface: 448-bit"
"Memory Bandwidth: 111.9GB/sec."
"API Support: Microsoft DirectX 10 and lower, OpenGL 2.1 and lower for Microsoft Windows"
"Display Connectors: 2 Dual-Link DVI-I, HDTV + TV Out"
"RAMDACs: Dual 400MHz"
"HDCP Capable"
"HDMI Capable"
"2-Way & 3-Way NVIDIA SLi Support"
"Card Dimensions: 266.7mm x 95.3mm x 38.1mm"
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POV GEFORCE GTX 260 GT200 576 1998 896MB GDDR3 448 216 10
GAINWARD RADEON HD 4870 RV770 760 3600 512MB GDDR5 256 800 10.1
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POV GEFORCE GTX 260 REVIEW INDEX

PAGE 1 - POV GEFORCE GTX 260 INTRODUCTION
PAGE 2 - 3DMARK 2006, 3DMARK VANTAGE, BATTLEFIELD 2142 AND BIO-SHOCK
PAGE 3 - CALL OF DUTY 4, ELDER SCROLLS IV, QUAKE WARS AND FINAL RESULT

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