GeForce GTS 250 to debut March 3

"Provided for the first day of the Cebit exhibition in Hanover the debut of the GeForce GTS 250 cards, the name behind which is the G92b architecture"


The debut of the "new" video card NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250 will be done in conjunction with the Cebit exhibition in Hanover, on March 3, We have already reported the case of new cards that have in fact only the name, being based on the same GPU family G92b, built with 55 nanometer technology, adopted by the boards with NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GTX +.

Along with the GeForce 250 GTS also find the solution GTS GeForce 240: these cards take respectively the technical solutions 9800GTX + and 9800GT. Compared to older generation models NVIDIA bring several changes to the SKU, further reducing the cost of production that will directly benefit a lower price to the end user.

GeForce 250 GTS For this is a cost that could fall to around U.S. $ 130 compared to 150 today, positioning itself as a direct rival of the solution ATI Radeon HD 4850. GeForce GTS 240 is waiting for a final cost not exceeding 100 dollars, about 20 less than now. With this new cost solution might be a good alternative to the solutions ATI Radeon HD 4830.

The first versions of GeForce GTS 250 will be characterized by an allocation of video memory of 1 Gbyte, the GPU is given a clock frequency of 738 MHz, while the GDDR3 video memory frequency will have to work 1,100 MHz (2,200 MHz effective) . NVIDIA also offer versions of GeForce GTS 250 cards with 512 Mbytes of video memory, but this is not clear at this time what will be the clock frequency.

Later versions will include NVIDIA cards GeForce GTS 250 GPU ever with 738 MHz clock but with video memory to 1,000 MHz (2,000 MHz effective) clock, using such cards memory chip GDDR3 1.0 ns against those from 0 , 8 ns adopted for cards with clock frequency of 1100 MHz memory Different partners will have the option to overclock serial memories video up to 1,100 MHz, but continuing to use memory chips to 1.0 ns.

We recall how the specific cards GeForce 9800 GTX + include clock frequency of 738 MHz for the GPU and 1100 MHz to 512 Mbytes of video memory, with 128 stream processors operating at 1836 MHz clock. The new GTS 250 GeForce cards will then be characterized by the same technical solutions GeForce 9800 GTX +, except for a higher amount of video memory in some versions and a clock frequency of memory that may be lower in models that will be marketed by the second half of March.

fourth or fifth name change?

I imagine the "nVidia GeForce GTS 250 Upgrade Kit" 200 euros for a box with inside a burned CD with a firmware update for your 8800.

In practice there were selling the usual 8800GTS G92 1.5 years ago.

But how it wrong?

The card will have added functionality in software as PhysX and Cuda,
be still better performance of the ATI HD4850 (and every month there are performance increases due to driver) always compared to this, consumes less power and is quieter, and most important games (except Crysis) are limited because graphically anchored architectures PS3 and XBOX360, and therefore require no more of that power.

Obviously, I hope nobody is so stupid to do the transition 8800GTS -> GTS250 hoping for who knows what ...

The only fact is that the VGA were a little shorter, that there are in my house, and I eat 3 SATA ports: