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>> Comparing your high-end 6-series to my low-end 200-series, we have:
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>> | GeForce 6600GT | GeForce GTX 260
>> Gigapixels / second | 2.000 | 16.128
>> Gigatexels / second | 4.000 | 36.864
>> Gigabytes / second | 16.000 | 111.900
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>> The GeForce GTX 260 also generates approximately 715 gigaFLOPS peak
>> processing power (single-precision only).
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> <sniff> Don't do that to me. I'm sad now... <sniff> :/
Heh. Well, yours is a 6-series. Then they made the 7-series. After that
came the 8-series. Then there was the 9-series (which is really just
rebadged versions of the 8-series - hence unpopular). Now we have the
200-series. And... according to the numbers above, it's "only" 8x
faster. 2004 for the 6-series, 2008 for the 200-series. So in 4 years,
it's "only" got 8x faster. Ho hum!
Well, I guess if I feel rich enough I could always add a second GTX260
at some point... I *do* have an SLI motherboard. >:-D
(No, seriously. I'm kidding. I really can't afford to do stuff like
that. Besides, the CPU is old enough already...)
>> We shall see!
>
> You won't be disappointed! :)
I ****ing will if it doesn't work with my motherboard! o_O
(The card is PCI Express 2.0 - and I'm not sure that my motherboard is.)
If not then I guess I'll be replacing the entire PC rather than just the
graphics card... but let's hope not, eh?
> When will you get the 260? Today?
I bought it using the super-hyper-ultra-mega-saver delivery option.
So... next week? Maybe?
(It's daft really; if you want it tomorrow, gotta pay lots of money. But
if you go with the cheap delivery option, often it arrives the next day
*anyway*! :-P But we'll see...)
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