he GeForce GTX 260 OEM was a graphics card by NVIDIA, launched on December 8th, 2009. Built on the 55 nm process, and based on the GT200B graphics processor, in its G200-103-B2 variant, the card supports DirectX 11.1. Even though it supports DirectX 11, the feature level is only 10_0, which can be problematic with many DirectX 11 & DirectX 12 titles. The GT200B graphics processor is a large chip with a die area of 470 mm? and 1,400 million transistors. Unlike the fully unlocked GeForce GTX 275, which uses the same GPU but has all 240 shaders enabled, NVIDIA has disabled some shading units on the GeForce GTX 260 OEM to reach the product's target shader count. It features 192 shading units, 64 texture mapping units, and 28 ROPs. NVIDIA has paired 1,792 MB GDDR3 memory with the GeForce GTX 260 OEM, which are connected using a 448-bit memory interface. The GPU is operating at a frequency of 518 MHz, memory is running at 1008 MHz.Being a dual-slot card, the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260 OEM draws power from 2x 6-pin power connectors, with power draw rated at 182 W maximum. Display outputs include: 2x DVI, 1x S-Video. GeForce GTX 260 OEM is connected to the rest of the system using a PCI-Express 2.0 x16 interface. The card measures 267 mm in length, and features a dual-slot cooling solution.
