If the Black Edition is this good, we don't even need a White Edition
The XFX GTX 260 (216) Black Edition put in a very impressive performance, in every bench -- basically, this video card single-handedly re-establishes the GTX 260 as viable alternative to the fearsome double punch of HD 4870 512MB and HD 4870 1GB out on the market today.
Of course, this is no regular GTX 260. XFX did a nice job here: the shader boost helped, but what really made this card scream is the aggressive overclocking that XFX executed here. Some overclocked cards offer a little performance boost here, and half a frame a second over there... the Black Edition however has enough of a nitro kick to propel it to another level of performance entirely.
The Black Edition bested our stock GTX 280 in most of the benchmarks, which is very impressive indeed. Selling for a $100 less than many GTX 280 cards, there really isn't any conceivable reason why anyone would purchase a stock GTX 280 over this wunder-260 from XFX. It is highly unlikely that a stock GTX 280 well really out-perform the Black Edition, even at the most extreme resolutions.