14 DAY TRIAL // Although most NVIDIA fans are likely waiting for the Santa Clara, California-based chip maker to officially roll out its next-generation line of desktop graphics cards, some of the company's board partners are continuing to roll out new designs based on the current generation of GPUs. Such is the case with Galaxy Microsystems, which is expected to roll out a new GT200-based model, which will combine NVIDIA's GTX 260 GPU with a single-slot cooling solution in a custom graphics card that should enable desktop PC users to take advantage of the high-performance specifications of the GPU, inside a smaller package.
Although no details have yet been made available on the new card's pricing and availability, the single-slot GeForce GTX 260 looks pretty much real, according to a couple of leaked images and specifications that have recently surfaced on the Internet. Unfortunately, the technical specs are somewhat sketchy, at this time, but the card should be designed on a 55nm GT200b graphics processing unit, coupled with 216 processing cores, 896MB of GDDR3 memory, a Vapor Chamber technology-enabled heatsink and two 6-pin PCI-Express power connectors, which can be noticed in the available photos.
The upcoming GTX 260+ could boast DVI, HDMI and DisplayPort interfaces, while the clock speeds would likely remain at their reference levels. The card could feature a GPU speed of 625MHz, 1350MHz for the Shaders and 2000MHz for the memory, which should enable you to play some of the most recent gaming titles at respectable frame rates.
Galaxy's upcoming card will also provide its users with support for some of NVIDIA's well-known technologies, including PhysX, SLI or CUDA-support. These enable the user to take advantage of a superior gaming experience, compared to that offered by AMD's Radeon GPUs.