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At first glance, GeForce GTX 260 reference version looks big and ugly with its "unique" design. But look can deceive you from the true power of this Graphics Card.

The 448 bit memory bus seems to be pointless for the DDR3 version though, since it will limit the speed you're supposedly to get from it.

However, given this was a high end product released by Nvidia, in terms of spec you can see that despite of slow gpu clock, its bandwidth amount is still insane and exceeds the another product like GTX 750 ti and HD 7750.

However, GTX 260 can't seem to catch up with many new games, at least if you expect it to run games with 60 fps. The AC Black Flag for instance, this gpu only manages to gain around 30 fps.

The games test with Battlefield 4 gives more hope as it can run around 40 fps with medium settings on 900p. The result is also better with Saint Row 4 even on 1080p high.

Ultimately try this to play GTA V as well, and still with 900p resolution GTX 260 can reach around 30 fps.

If you are not too excited with the current choice then you need to be free by using graphics card under 100 and why it was considered powerful enough.