

Mass Effect is one of the best games I have played this year. Should you feel the need to compare the performance results to other competing cards, please check out our VGA charts. In light blue you'll spot the GeForce 9800 GTX+ In light green, the direct competitions Radeon HD 4870 with 1024 MB memory. In deep green you'll spot Gigabyte's GTX 260 OC product. Results: for today we'll take a couple of GeForce graphics cards. A spectacular new vision from legendary developers BioWare, Mass Effect challenges players to lead a squad of freedom fighters as they struggle against threatening armies to restore peace in the land. Set 200 years in the future in an epic universe, Mass Effect places gamers in a vast galactic community in danger of being conquered by a legendary agent gone rogue. Players stepped onto this stage as Commander Shepard, a hero at the vanguard of humanity's ascension in the arena of galactic politics, and thus began an epic story bolstered by engaging characters and rich, branching dialogue. Originally released for the XBOX 360 it unveiled a vast, beautiful galaxy populated by diverse, fascinating alien races. Gaming: Mass EffectĬontroversial, new and definitely one of the bigger titles of the year. Finally, the first step should be completely black. As well, the dark-end step differences should be about the same as the light-end step differences. If your monitor is correctly set up, you should be able to distinguish each step, and each step should be roughly visually distinct from its neighbours by the same amount. This simple test pattern is evenly spaced from 0 to 255 brightness levels, with no profile embedded. We realized, if that happens, your monitor is not properly setup. How do we know this? Because we receive a couple of email every now and then telling that a reader can't distinguish the benchmark charts (colors) in our reviews.

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The card measures 267 mm in length, and features a dual-slot cooling solution. GeForce GTX 260 OEM is connected to the rest of the system using a PCI-Express 2.0 x16 interface. Display outputs include: 2x DVI, 1x S-Video. The GPU is operating at a frequency of 518 MHz, memory is running at 1008 MHz.īeing a dual-slot card, the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 OEM draws power from 2x 6-pin power connectors, with power draw rated at 182 W maximum. NVIDIA has paired 1,792 MB GDDR3 memory with the GeForce GTX 260 OEM, which are connected using a 448-bit memory interface.

It features 192 shading units, 64 texture mapping units, and 28 ROPs. Unlike the fully unlocked GeForce GTX 275, which uses the same GPU but has all 240 shaders enabled, NVIDIA has disabled some shading units on the GeForce GTX 260 OEM to reach the product's target shader count. The GT200B graphics processor is a large chip with a die area of 470 mm² and 1,400 million transistors. Even though it supports DirectX 11, the feature level is only 10_0, which can be problematic with many DirectX 11 & DirectX 12 titles. Built on the 55 nm process, and based on the GT200B graphics processor, in its G200-103-B2 variant, the card supports DirectX 11.1. The GeForce GTX 260 OEM was a graphics card by NVIDIA, launched on December 8th, 2009.
