Graphics company Zotac has presented some odd creations in the past. Its new GeForce GTX 260 graphics card certainly fits well there. It uses a non-reference 12 layer PCB 12 completely covered in high-quality components. The graphics card sports 15 phase power supply and the PCB is just swelling in every direction to house the phases and other components.
Each phase operate with two Renesas LFPAK mosfets, one BL high-capacity choke and one Panasonic SP capacitor. All to optimize the overclocking potential of the card. Of the 15 power phases 12 are dedicated to the GPU and the remaining three handle the memory.
The card ships with 800MHz GPU clock frequency, which is a lot higher than NVIDIA’s 576MHz reference clock. The card will be cooled by Arctic Cooling Accelero Xtreme. Zotac’s new GTX 260 card looks to be exclusive for China costing around $200. A real shame for the rest of us. Hopefully we will see more of Zotac’s engineering skills here in the west in the future.
