NVIDIA quietly release 9 cluster GTX 260

Wednesday 17th September 2008, 08:47:00 PM, written by Rys

NVIDIA have imbued the GeForce GTX 260 SKU with an extra enabled cluster, and around a 60 buck markup, in order to strengthen their lineup a little bit.  And confuse consumers.  What was wrong with GTX 270?

Nothing else about GTX 260s change, other than the extra cluster, which gives the product 12.5% more per-clock texture and compute ability than before, edging performance up a bit for the 60 bucks.

Boards are available now at the new price, although we expect it to drop to the old GTX 260 price of around $240 pretty sharpish, and the older 8 cluster model to be phased out.

nvidia ± gt200, gtx, 260, 9, cluster, what, were, they, thinking

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