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Geforce GTX 260 192 reaches end of life
Only 216 shaders matter
Nvidia has stopped producing the 65nm-based Geforce GTX 260 with 192 shaders and all GTX 260 that are coming from now on are 55nm and have 216 shaders.
These cards will be available in early December and we are quite sure that they will overclock much better than the old ones. Nvidia doesn’t want to let ATI walk away without a fight and it's preparing a surprise or two for this month.
The old GTX 260 with 192 shaders, the one that is clearly slower than Radeon HD 4870, is going for retirement and it will be replaced by the new GTX 260 216 shaders and most of these cards will end up with 55nm chips.