An announcement by GIGABYTE UNITED INC., a leading manufacturer of motherboards and graphics cards reveals today the launch of their future generation graphic accelerator, the GIGABYTE GV-N26OC-896H-B. Packed with NVIDIA’s latest GeForce GTX 260 OC graphics processor, the accelerator will assure you the highest quality whether it is games or a movie.

Bundled with 216 processors the GeForce GTX 260 OC definitely overpowers the earlier GeForce GTX 260 with an enhanced performance of nearly 5-10%. Expect a real world gaming experience with 448bit, 896 GB GDDR3 memory along with NVIDIA’s PhysX Technology that will take your 3D gaming capabilities to an altogether new level. The GIGABYTE GV-N26OC-896H-B is an accelerator that offers you much more with a HDCP (High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection) and Full HD to 1,080P. So you not only have great gaming support, but you are also promised one of the finest home theater experiences.Making even your most demanding system tasks effortless is the flexibility of the GIGABYTE GV-N26OC-896H-B with CUDA (Compute Unified Device Architecture) Technology. Over traditional CPUs, this distinct technology ensures you video transcoding for an up to 7x performance enhancement. To get rid of jagged edges, the accelerator is also attributed by 16x Anti-aliasing Technology that gives you real fast and premium quality anti-aliasing up to 16x sample rates. In addition there is also a 128-bit floating point High Dynamic Range (HDR) Lighting that gives you a two-fold precision as against previous generations.

Additional features incorporated include a 3-way NVIDIA SLI Technology that amazingly implements a 3-way AFR (Alternate Frame Rendering), DirectX 10 support and the very recent Unified Shader architecture with full support for Shader Model 4.0 along with the full Aero Interface. The GIGABYTE GV-N26OC-896H-B also comprises of the NVIDIA PureVideo technology with Dual Dual-Link DVI support.

Up for distribution in India by Avnet (India), the GIGABYTE GV-N26OC-896H-B should cost you around Rs. 24,500.