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In this case, we’re looking at a fairly modest boost to a 771MHz core, 1890MHz shaders, and 1123MHz memory. Like many GeForce-based graphics cards, this puppy runs at clock speeds higher than Nvidia’s baseline. The card we have in Damage Labs for review is EVGA’s GeForce GTS 250 Superclocked 1GB.
GTS 250 GPU Z DRIVERS
Unfortunately, though, 512MB and 1GB cards will not match, and Nvidia’s drivers won’t treat a 1GB card as if it were a 512MB card for the sake of multi-GPU cross-compatibility, like AMD’s will. As you can see in a couple of the pictures above, the GTS 250 retains the dual SLI connectors present on the 9800 GTX, and Nvidia says the GTS 250 will willingly participate in an SLI pairing alongside a GeForce 9800 GTX+ of the same memory size. There are some benefits to GPU continuity. Heck, they may have changed this thing’s name again by then. Then again, things change quickly in the world of graphics cards, and Nvidia doesn’t expect GTS 250 cards to be available for purchase until March 10, a whole week from now. That’s quite a nice price in the context of today’s market, where the GTS 250’s most direct competition, the Radeon HD 4850, sells for about $150 in 512MB form.
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The GTS 250 also offers another possibility in the form of a 1GB variant, which Nvidia and its partners expect to see selling for about $150. The GTS 250 is quite a bit shorter than the 9800 GTXĪlong with the G92’s umpteenth brand name comes a price cut of sorts: the 512MB version of the GTS 250 will sell for about $130, give or take a penny, well below the price of 9800 GTX+ 512MB cards today. Although, we should note, Nvidia rates the GTS 250’s max board power at 150W, right at the limits of the PCI Express spec for this power plug configuration. The reduction in power connectors is made possible by a new board design that cuts power consumption sufficiently to make the second power input superfluous. Although its base clock speeds remain the same as the 9800 GTX+-738MHz for most of the GPU, 1836MHz for the shaders, and 1100MHz (or 2200 MT/s) for the GDDR3 memory-the GeForce GTS 250 is a physically smaller card, at nine inches long rather than 10.5″, and it has but a single six-pin auxiliary power connector onboard.
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This is probably the card that, by all rights, the 9800 GTX+ should have been, because it consolidates the gains that switching to a 55nm fab process can bring. Which brings us to today and the introduction of yet another graphics card based on the G92 GPU, the GeForce GTS 250.
GTS 250 GPU Z PLUS
Slowly, the GTX+ began replacing the 9800 GTX in the market, as the buying public scratched its collective head over the significance of that plus symbol. The base clock speeds on the GTX+ matched those of some “overclocked in the box” GeForce 9800 GTX cards, and the performance of the two was essentially identical, though the GTX+ did reduce power consumption by a handful of watts. This chip found its way to market aboard a slightly revised graphics card dubbed the GeForce 9800 GTX+. Then, in response to the introduction of strong new competition, Nvidia shipped a new version of the G92 GPU with the same basic architecture but manufactured on a smaller 55nm fabrication process. And thus things remained for nearly ten weeks. Thus the GeForce 8800 GTS 512 became the 9800 GTX.
GTS 250 GPU Z SERIES
Those cards had arrived on the scene way back in November of 2006.Īs the winter of ’07 began to fade into spring, Nvidia had a change of heart and suddenly started renaming the later members of the GeForce 8 series as “new” 9-series cards. This card initiated the G92’s long history of brand confusion by overlapping with existing 320MB and 640MB versions of the GeForce 8800 GTS, which were based on an entirely different chip, the much larger (and older) G80. The fuller implementation of G92 came in December ’07 in the form of the GeForce 8800 GTS 512MB. The 8800 GT was a stripped-down version of the G92 with a few bits and pieces disabled. The first graphics card based on it was the GeForce 8800 GT, which debuted in October of 2007. The history of Nvidia’s G92 graphics processor is a long one, as these things go.