GTX260 Coming With New PCB Design to Cut Cost

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At the end of last year, GeForce GTX 260 became the first one of NVIDIA GTX200 series graphics cards to use 55nm processing technology. It featured P654 reference design, which cost less than earlier P651. The number of PCB layers reduced from 14 to 10, and it has abandoned the expensive Volterra chip to cut cost. Quite soon, the third-generation GTX260 design plan with codename of “P897/D10U-20″ will be also surfaced..........

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Updated: Exclusive Look at P897 Inno3D GeForce GTX260

We said the third-generation GTX260 design plan “P897/D10U-20″ would be surfaced quite soon. Compared with earlier P654 design plan, P897 plan is expected to save cost of $10 to $15, which makes the products more competitive.

Now we manage to get more details of P897 GTX260 which features reference design. This card will enter into mass production from next week, but the pricing is unknown yet.

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