The GTX 260 AMP˛! Edition comes as any other graphics card, in a nicely designed box with details about the features on the front, rear and sides.
This card comes acommpanied with the hugely popular driving game - RACEDRIVER GRID. Inside the box you will also find the usual adaptors such as 2x Molex-to-PCI-e and 1x DVI-to-HDMI. Apart from this there is not much else to say on the packaging side of things.
Features
It features a new core along with some interesting improvements over the standard stock GTX 260 card. Below is a comparison table of the GTX 260, GTX 260 AMP˛! and the ATI alternative the HD 4870.
The GTX 260 AMP˛! card features many improvements, such as the stream processors – 216 feature on the AMP˛! whereas only 192 on the stock GTX 260 card. This is where Nvidia have sought to make things difficult for ATI, the 4870 has many pleasing features but it lacks greatly in the stream processing abilities. This gives the Geforce slight performance advantage over the ATI competitor. But benefits are not only in this department but the huge 898MB memory capacity along with the 448 bit memory interface would seek to offer greater performance at higher resolutions during gaming.
Whilst there are some definite feature improvements in the AMP˛! edition, the most noticeable element that gamers will pick up on is the fact that the card comes pre-clocked. The Core Clocks on the GTX 260 AMP˛! are up by 70MHz over the stock GTX 260, whereas the Memory Clocks are set at an additional 50MHz.
When comparing against the ATI opponent the GTX 260 AMP˛! is a few centremetres bigger, so be sure to check whether you have the room to harbour such a big graphics card. In the images below, the card is installed inside an Antec 1200 case.
This card comes acommpanied with the hugely popular driving game - RACEDRIVER GRID. Inside the box you will also find the usual adaptors such as 2x Molex-to-PCI-e and 1x DVI-to-HDMI. Apart from this there is not much else to say on the packaging side of things.
Features
It features a new core along with some interesting improvements over the standard stock GTX 260 card. Below is a comparison table of the GTX 260, GTX 260 AMP˛! and the ATI alternative the HD 4870.
The GTX 260 AMP˛! card features many improvements, such as the stream processors – 216 feature on the AMP˛! whereas only 192 on the stock GTX 260 card. This is where Nvidia have sought to make things difficult for ATI, the 4870 has many pleasing features but it lacks greatly in the stream processing abilities. This gives the Geforce slight performance advantage over the ATI competitor. But benefits are not only in this department but the huge 898MB memory capacity along with the 448 bit memory interface would seek to offer greater performance at higher resolutions during gaming.
Whilst there are some definite feature improvements in the AMP˛! edition, the most noticeable element that gamers will pick up on is the fact that the card comes pre-clocked. The Core Clocks on the GTX 260 AMP˛! are up by 70MHz over the stock GTX 260, whereas the Memory Clocks are set at an additional 50MHz.
When comparing against the ATI opponent the GTX 260 AMP˛! is a few centremetres bigger, so be sure to check whether you have the room to harbour such a big graphics card. In the images below, the card is installed inside an Antec 1200 case.
