"Invisible" <voi### [at] devnull> wrote in message 
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> >>   With a new GTX 260 you'd be laughing.
>>
>>   Oh, I missed that it was a GTX. Yep, should play fine.
>
> *All* of the GPUs in the 200-series are designated "GTX". (I don't know 
> why... Perhaps something to do with nVidia's new naming scheme?)

     Hmm, you're right, my bad.


>
> So anyway, I asked Wikipedia:
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_Nvidia_graphics_processing_units
>
> Comparing your high-end 6-series to my low-end 200-series, we have:
>
>                     | GeForce 6600GT | GeForce GTX 260
> Gigapixels / second |      2.000     |       16.128
> Gigatexels / second |      4.000     |       36.864
> Gigabytes  / second |     16.000     |      111.900
>
> The GeForce GTX 260 also generates approximately 715 gigaFLOPS peak 
> processing power (single-precision only).


    <sniff> Don't do that to me. I'm sad now... <sniff>  :/


>
> Given that you claim your 6600GT "handles" Crysis, and all of the 
> performance data I can actually obtain for both cards gives the GTX260 has 
> roughly ten times "better", in theory the GTX260 should eat it up...
>
> We shall see!

    You won't be disappointed! :)

     When will you get the 260? Today?

       ~Steve~

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