NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 Core 192 versus Core 216 performance analysis

[Neil79]

I'm pretty sure that we could win an award for the most blatantly obvious article conclusion ever if we simply noted here that "the GeForce GTX 260 Core 216 is faster than its predecessor with just 192 Stream Processors", although in fairness that conclusion is (of course) entirely true. With other factors beyond raw shader processing falling into the equation in any real-world gaming scenario, we never really see the full benefits of this increase in Stream Processors, but dependant on the title it does tend to offer somewhere in the realm of a 5-6% performance increase - Sometimes its more, sometimes its less, but overall of course this is nothing to be sniffed at when faced with the prospect of buying either part for basically the same price.

http://www.elitebastards.com/cms/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=656&Itemid=29

 

[Devil_Spawn]

much less significant than i expected

 

[elpedro]

Pretty much what I expected, I've seen my 192 overclocked beat overclocked 216 cards, as you can see clock for clock the 216 is obviously ahead, depends how far you can push it.

710/1484/1250 are my 24/7 settings, can run benchmarks higher.

 

[LoadsaMoney]

A 192 Stream 260 should be a bargain now as well.

 

[willhub]

A 192 Stream 216 should be a bargain now as well.

 

[LoadsaMoney]

Oops corrected.

 

[spoonjaffa]

Just got a bfg gtx260 oc (192) as a replacement for my broken 8800gtx oc2.. its good to know the differnce between 192 and 216 isnt that much and so not worth me selling it to get a 216 model.

Now i heard the 260s are great overclockers but as i have a factory oc model, do i need to push it more? Is it worth it? I havnt checked yet but would my BFG warranty invalidate if i oc it?

 

[w311zy]

Just got a bfg gtx260 oc (192) as a replacement for my broken 8800gtx oc2.. its good to know the differnce between 192 and 216 isnt that much and so not worth me selling it to get a 216 model.

Now i heard the 260s are great overclockers but as i have a factory oc model, do i need to push it more? Is it worth it? I havnt checked yet but would my BFG warranty invalidate if i oc it?

a good tool for overclocking is EVGA Precision and it works on all nvidia cards... i would say overclock it to the max...

i had a card RMA'd to BFG before that went faulty, i had overclocked it but didnt tell them and it went fine i dont think they can tell tbh.

 

[Shocky-FM]

Just got a bfg gtx260 oc (192) as a replacement for my broken 8800gtx oc2.. its good to know the differnce between 192 and 216 isnt that much and so not worth me selling it to get a 216 model.

Now i heard the 260s are great overclockers but as i have a factory oc model, do i need to push it more? Is it worth it? I havnt checked yet but would my BFG warranty invalidate if i oc it?

Most will max out around 702/750, might need to unlink the shader to achive the higher levels, memory will probably reach 1200-1350,

Just overclock in small steps and use furmark to test, however don't use furmark as a final test of stability because for that it's useless, just use it as guide.

 

[w311zy]

Most will max out around 702/750, might need to unlink the shader to achive the higher levels, memory will probably reach 1200-1350,

Just overclock in small steps and use furmark to test, however don't use furmark as a final test of stability because for that it's useless, just use it as guide.

is that the same for the GTX280's aswell ?