Today's Dark Lords Wield XFX GeForce 260 GTX Black Edition Graphics Cards
Author: Hrvoje Jakovac
Date: 10 Oct 2008

If you are lucky to get your hands on the XFX GeForce® 260 GTX Black Edition Graphics Card, you’ll unleash this powerful dark force on anyone you take on—with triumphant results. Engineered with 216 streaming processors, the XFX GeForce® 260 GTX Black Edition Graphics Card is an absolute necessity for gamers who demand hellacious speed and ass-kicking performance, along with all of the benefits the Prince of Darkness would expect.

Offering demonic speed the likes of which only those with evil intent can truly enjoy, the XFX 260 GTX Black Edition Graphics Card attacks with cruel intent by ensuring that complex information arrives at its destination with killer speed.

All XFX Black Edition graphics cards are backed with benefits that befit membership into this coven of wickedness, including priority technical support for the card, as well as a special case badge, an exclusive Black Edition membership card, and members-only product offers and special event invitations. To say that they are the most powerful and elite graphics cards available would be an understatement.

The XFX 260 GTX Black Edition graphics card harnesses the power of second generation Unified Architecture, SLI technology and top-of-the-line DirectX 10 support to redefine the term “realistic” for the virtual world. In fact, the second generation NVIDIA® Unified Architecture delivers significantly greater gaming performance thanks to its 216 enhanced processor cores and a graphics clock of 576 MHz that generate unparalleled shading horsepower.

3D gaming is even more intense thanks to NVIDIA’s new GPU PhysX™ technology that renders convincing facial expressions, multiple ultra-high polygon characters in complex environments and convincing physical effects like weather and explosions. The XFX 260 GTX Black Edition also comes PhysX®-Ready, however, NVIDIA Phys drivers are required to experience in-game GPU PhysX acceleration.

Featuring full Microsoft DirectX 10 support, the XFX 260 GTX Black Edition delivers true Direct X 10 gaming in extreme HD resolutions, for crystal clear environments and blazing cinematic effects.

Three-way NVIDIA SLI® Technology ensures powerful performance scaling by implementing three-way Alternate Frame Rendering (AFR) for the world’s fastest gaming solution under Windows Vista. PCI Express 2.0 bus architecture offers the highest data transfer speeds for today’s bandwidth-hungry games and 3D applications, and is backwards compatible with existing PCI Express motherboards.

NVIDIA CUDA™ technology and the new CUDA runtime for Windows Vista enables programmers to offload the most intensive processing tasks from their CPU to their GPU, putting the power of up to 216 multi-threaded processor cores to work for you. From transcoding video or running Folding@home in the background while web surfing, the XFX 260 GTX Black Edition graphics card delivers performance improvements of up to seven times a tradition CPU.

NVIDIA PureVideo® HD technology ensures the ultimate in picture clarity, color and image scaling. The card also features PCI Express 2.0 support, Dual Dual-Link DVI support, Open GL 2.1 support, and is Dual-link HDCP capable.
The darker forces have never been so well engineered. Or capable of such significant carnage.