Tuesday, February 17th 2009
XFX GeForce GTS 250 Pictured, Looks Familiar
Come March 3, and NVIDIA will have officially renamed the GeForce 9800 GTX+ to GeForce GTS 250. NVIDIA partners will have announced new SKUs based on the GPU throughout March. XFX on its part, seems to have made its GTS 250 accelerator ready, and it looks familiar. Chinese website IT168 caught an early glimpse of the accelerator.
The XFX GeForce GTS 250 series card will use a custom cooling design that looks almost identical to the company's Radeon HD 4850 accelerator. It features a 55 nm G92b graphics processor. Its clock-speeds are expected to be 738/1836/1100 MHz (core/shader/memory) for the base model, though one might expect XFX to come up with factory-overclocked variants. It holds 512 MB of GDDR3 memory across a 256-bit memory bus. XFX may choose the upcoming CeBIT event to launch this accelerator, after of-course, NVIDIA handles the SKU launch on its end of things.
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IT168
The XFX GeForce GTS 250 series card will use a custom cooling design that looks almost identical to the company's Radeon HD 4850 accelerator. It features a 55 nm G92b graphics processor. Its clock-speeds are expected to be 738/1836/1100 MHz (core/shader/memory) for the base model, though one might expect XFX to come up with factory-overclocked variants. It holds 512 MB of GDDR3 memory across a 256-bit memory bus. XFX may choose the upcoming CeBIT event to launch this accelerator, after of-course, NVIDIA handles the SKU launch on its end of things.
16 Comments on XFX GeForce GTS 250 Pictured, Looks Familiar
I'm gonna stay a bit more with my 8800GTS.. ehm, 9800GTX ehm ehm, before i'll upgrade to this next generation. me reckons its the best :D
The ppl that dont know dont care, and the ppl who this ticks off, are us, and we know better and can look at card specs to see whats what.
So in the big pic of things,it does not matter, and if they ever get it all laid out right, this name sceam will help the noob.
4850:
www.pcgameshardware.de/screenshots/medium/2009/01/xfx-radeon-hd-4850.jpg
GTS 250:
www.techpowerup.com/img/09-02-17/71b.jpg
WoW!!!
not to mention people like us know what the meat of the card is, in this case G92GT, so were not really being fooled, nvidia openly tell us theyre changing the name.
panties can be untwisted.......now.
My 2 cents.
I mean who woudl buy a 8800gts 512 now, but a GTS 250 4sure, I bet they will make a bunch off that, and to me it's about the card. A 55 nm G92b should run cooler and that usually means more OCing so I am interested in the price, that is the make or break here.
803/2055/1122...but the gtx/gts250 whatever you want to call it does have memory that clocks significantly higher and generally the core goes 850+ from what I've seen so the stock clocks are probably pretty conservative compared to what is possible.
It's certainly easier than developing a new range of (lower powered) video cards based on their current GT200b GPU...
they could have called the GTX295 "the homoerotic guide to having your butt pounded" and i'd have bought one cos its still 2xGT200 slapped together.
like someone who has a 8800GT already, thinking the GTS250, with such an awesome name would be much much better
if they don't know any better why not rip em off,:ohwell:
and i don't know ANYONE who EVER goes and buys a new card on an impulse, especially just cos it has a new name.
buyer beware!