picture1FiringSquad takes advantage of the recent price drops on the GeForce GTX260 cards to benchmark and compare three different types of cards: an original GTX260 engineering reference sample, some 65nm cards, and some 55nm cards. So what’s the main differences between a 65nm and 55nm card?

Thanks to its smaller manufacturing process, NVIDIA’s latest 55-nm GeForce GTX 260 GPU delivers improved power consumption, but the results were mixed when it came to temps. Since NVIDIA’s reference design removes the aluminum backplate on 55-nm GPUs to cut costs (including the GTX 285), we actually found that our 55-nm BFG and EVGA GeForce GTX 260 cards ran slightly warmer at load than 65-nm GeForce GTX 260-216 cards we had on hand, although they did run a few degrees cooler at idle.

GeForce GTX 260 Roundup.

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