GeForce GTX 280, 260 clocks and prices surface

[Andreas G]

GeForce GTX is the name of the graphics card series using the NVIDIA GT200 graphics circuit. Initially there will be two models, GTX 280 and GTX 260. We've known for long that the faster of the two, 280, will sport 240 shader processors, 512-bit bus, 1GB GDDR3 RAM, 32 ROPs and 80 TMUs. In turn, GTX 260 will sport 192 shaders, 448-bit bus, 896MB GDDR3 memory, 24 ROPS and 64 TMUs. And now the final frequencies have been revealed by the people over at TheInq, and they seemed reasonable. The core clocks are said to be 600MHz and 575MHz respectively of GTX 280 and 260. The shaders will be clocked at 1300MHz and 1250MHz (misprint in the original article), while the memory will operate at 1.1GHz and 1.0GHz with each card. Prices will be $600 for the GTX280 and $450 for the GTX260, pretty much as expected.