And the 5870 card was simply bought from AMD and then labelled with the company's logo (good-looking design, by the way, very effective in combination with black and red cooling system of the reference card).īoth GTX 260/275 cards are based on the same design, differing only in frequencies and pared-down cores. But GTX 260/275 cards are based on Gigabyte's PCBs, even though they come with the reference cooling system. These memory chips are designed for the maximum frequency of 1250 (5000) MHz.Ĭomparison with the reference design, front viewĬomparison with the reference design, back viewĪll three cards apparently copy the reference to some degree. The graphics card has 1024 MB of GDDR5 SDRAM allocated in 8 Samsung memory chips on the front side of the PCB. These memory chips are designed for the maximum frequency of 1200 (2400) MHz. The graphics card has 896 MB of GDDR3 SDRAM allocated in 14 Hynix memory chips on the front side of the PCB. The graphics card has 1792 MB of GDDR3 SDRAM allocated in 14 Hynix memory chips on the front side of the PCB. Multi-GPU operation: CrossFire (Hardware).Output connectors: 2xDVI (Dual-Link/HDMI), 1xDisplay Port, 1xHDMI.Gigabyte GV-N26SO (GeForce GTX 260 SuperOverclock) 896MB Output connectors: 1xDVI (Dual-Link), 1xVGA, 1xHDMI.Gigabyte GV-N275SO (GeForce GTX 275 SuperOverclock) 1792MB While there is no need to examine it again, it will be very interesting to test it in a CrossFire configuration. Today we are going to review a couple of such products: GTX 260 and 275 SuperOverclock from Gigabyte.Īnd we'll also take a look at the new RADEON HD 5870 card, which is provided by Gigabyte as it is - it's just a copy of the reference design without any modifications. We won't be surprised to see "UltraMegaSuperOverclocked" or something of the kind. Hence all these "Overclocked," "Turbo," "Super turbo," and the like. What's very interesting is the nice US$249 price point and we'll soon see how this pans out.īefore we put it to the test, do have a quick look at its technical specifications and see how it stands up against comparable competitive SKUs.What should partners do, when GPU manufacturers haven't rolled out new products for a long time already? Right, they should invent new solutions based on the existing ones. In a nutshell, the new GTX 275 is the lovechild of the GTX 285 and GTX 260+. It has 240 stream processors and a 448-bit memory bus width its core is clocked at 633MHz, whereas memory and shaders are clocked at 2268MHz DDR and 1404MHz respectively. As its name implies, it fills the gap between the awesome (but pricey) GTX 285 and the GTX 260+. Like a never-ending game of cat and mouse, the GeForce GTX 275 is NVIDIA' counter to the Radeon HD 4890, which we earlier reviewed. And luckily for them, their choices of high-end graphics card have just become a little more varied, because NVIDIA is releasing the GeForce GTX 275. Their GeForce GTX 295 stole the speed king crown from ATI's Radeon HD 4870 X2 and with a new pricing strategy and improved products in the form of GeForce GTX 285 and GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 (GTX 260+), they gave gamers looking for high-end graphics solutions something to really think about. Sure, they were left floored by the sheer value-for-money proposition that ATI was touting, but like real men, they licked their wounds and soldiered on. Lightning Quick Response Lightning Quick ResponseĪfter the setback inflicted upon them by ATI's Radeon 4800 series, NVIDIA has been slowly but surely picking themselves up.