Colorful iGame260 – the product on the GeForce GTX 260 comparable to the speed with GTX 285
With adaptation based of the video cards on GeForce GTX 260 is busy not only the developer to reduce the price and sell more accelerators, but also third-party manufacturers, collecting advanced options adapters.
Colorful iGame260
One of these was the product of Colorful – iGame260 +. According to the source, this version of the accelerator is even faster than the basic version of the fastest uniprocessor adapter – GTX285.
iGame260 + is an engineering sample, which is equipped with polymer capacitors, card with a silver brazing elements (SPT, Silver Plating Technology) chip and the IPU. The latter should provide an excellent opportunity this upper plate and intelligent cooling.
Frequencies iGame260 + equal to 650/1100 MHz for the chip and memory, respectively. This is initially higher than that of standard cards with the 576/999 MHz. Shader unit also works faster than the original – 1600 MHz to 1242 in the reference product.
With the increase in their frequency and card improvements shown in the 3DMark Vantage test result 20% superior to the normal speed of GeForce GTX 260. Testing in real gaming applications also showed a significant increase in FPS.
The official price of the card has not been declared, but according to preliminary data expected cost will be ~ $ 190.
