We know about the GeForce GTS 250, where it is nothing more than a rebranded GeForce 9800 GTX+ version. And while this is annoying to a degree for the less experienced users who tend not to keep up with what's happening, but if you are looking for something that is to be a well known contender, then this GeForce GTS 250 could well be a good choice. Since the card is a GeForce 9800 GTX+ and it's been out for so long now, so companies have been able to offer a good range of options from the word go. Today we will have just a look at what exactly Gigabyte has done to the card and if it can stand out from the competition. We will have a closer look at the graphics card itself in just a moment. - TweakTown
Lately, NVIDIA has somehow developed the rather bad habit of renaming previous generation models and then trying to really pass them off as part of the latest generation of graphics cards. Previous examples include the GeForce 8800 GS becoming the GeForce 9600 GSO edition, but also the GeForce 8800 GT being rebranded as the GeForce 9800 GT, both of which resulted from the G92 chip. The latest spate of renaming stems largely from NVIDIA's difficulty in getting a scaled down version of the GT200 out the door to cater to the lower segments of the market, where the majority of sales reside. Consequently NVIDIA has no choice but to let the G92 live on and to fill in this part of the market. - VR-Zone
Well we have has just released a new version of NVIDIA BIOS Editor (NiBiTor) software. NiBiTor is the original and definitive BIOS tweaker that supports the latest NVIDIA graphics cards, and which is updated on a regular basis. NiBiTor allows graphics card enthusiasts, or the hardcore overclockers to have full control over some advanced features and functionality found on firmware of supporting cards. And doing so users gain some extra performance, enable certain hidden features, tweaking memory latencies, provide extensive information, adapt bootup settings, changing fan speed options and/or get extra stability on their NVIDIA based graphics accelerators which will just give them that little extra value.
The Toxic HD 4870 is the name for Sapphire's special version of their Radeon HD 4870, this time with some special cooling and an overclocked core. The board uses their Vapor-X cooling that does a great job at 780MHz core speeds and 4000MHz effectively memory speed. Today's card comes with 512MB of GDDR5 memory, but as of January this year, the same video card is available with 1GB of GDDR5 memory. Additional memory pays off at high resolutions and in texture intensive games, which are growing in numbers buy the way. And to make things even more interesting, we are soon expecting Sapphire to announce its Radeon HD 4870 with even 2GB of GDDR5 memory being available. - FudZilla
Now last week NVIDIA released their GeForce GTS 250 series. As most of you already know the cards are based on the existing G92 chipset which has been used on a wide range of GeForce 8800 and also GeForce 9800 cards before. The only novelty, if you can call it that, is that there is a 1GB version available now. We also checked already the 2GB exclusive Palit card and saw that there is no need for such a board yet. Galaxy has chosen to use an Arctic Cooling Accelero Twin Turbo cooler instead of the reference GeForce GTS 250 cooler which should hopefully make for a quieter experience. What is even better is that according to Galaxy the price of the video card will not be higher than $149. - techPowerUp
We have just received information that NVIDIA is preparing a GeForce GTX 275 card to go head on with the upcoming 55nm based Radeon HD 4890 which we discussed yesterday. According to the details, NVIDIA has briefed their partners only just recently and details of the counter attack strategy are pretty vague at the moment. However, NVIDIA seems quite confident that this card will have a competitive pricing and performance advantage over the Radeon HD 4890. Keep in mind that this video card is labeled as a GeForce GTX 275 which implies that performance can be expected between the range of a 216 shader strong GeForce GTX 260 and the faster GeForce GTX 280 graphics accelerator. - FudZilla
We recently saw Palit announce that they would be offering their GeForce GTS 250 in three forms, 512MB, 1GB and the model we have today, 2GB. We have to say, this amount of memory sounds quite excessive for a graphics board that barely makes it into the higher end spectrum of the market. As games become more intensive there is no doubt that more memory is going to be handy. The problem is that the gains are best seen at the highest resolution. So while this doesn't sound like a bad thing, the problem you have is that instead of getting a minimum twenty frames, you might end up with a minimum of twentytwo. And as such extra frame buffer is great but has a rather limited impact. - TweakTown
Multiple sources have told us that they learned the RV790 might be branded Radeon HD 4890 and this card should just launch at some point in April. It is definitely going to be faster than te current Radeon HD 4870 and it beats the GeForce GTX 260, even the 55nm one and we are quite sure it will come close to the GeForce GTX 285 performance, but there is a realistic chance NVIDIA might still be faster with the GeForce GTX 285. Bear in mind that the Radeon HD 4890 is the name that ATI is throwing to many people, but the company can change this in a heartbeat. They did it before with the Radeon 3800 series when everyone expected another Radeon HD 2900 generation graphics card. - FudZilla
Just the other day we looked at the GeForce GTS 250 from Galaxy. But today we're looking at something a bit more higher up in the market, NVIDIA's number two card and the fastest single GPU graphics card on the market, the GeForce GTX 285. Galaxy has taken the time to get a bit down and dirty with the card and squeeze some extra MHz out of it. We're going to find out just how these extra MHz affect overall performance when compared to a video card that follows the reference clock speeds. Before we get into that though, we're going to take the time to have a closer look at their package and see what Galaxy has included inside, as well the looks and feel of the graphics card itself. - TweakTown
NVIDIA just released a new video card called the GeForce GTS 250 which has been generating quite a bit of buzz. While it is targeted at the low to mid-range gaming performance market, the interest has been in the fact that this is yet another release based on their G92 chipset. While we do not have one of these new GeForce GTS 250 boards on hand, we do have something that might be confused for one if you just saw some of the key features and specifications. The Sparkle GeForce 9800 GTX+ was selected from the large inventory of video cards for this article. Of course this will as such give also an indication of the GeForce GTS 250's gaming performance as well as game play experience. - BigBruin
At first we want to thank AMD for providing us the second ATI Radeon HD 4830 video card sample for testing a CrossFire configuration, and allowing us to take a closer look at the gaming performance. And as such we will check out the ATI Radeon HD 4830 CrossFire configuration to see how much performance gain we will have compared to a single card and also it will be interesting to see how the Radeon HD 4830 CrossFire config will compare to their single Radeon HD 4870 graphics accelerator. Somehow we do expect that it should be able to outperform the single card solution, and also offer some greater overclocking potential. And as such we will have a good view on the performance difference. - ShopTalk
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