NVIDIA is a company well known for its rebranding, and so its latest product is definitely nothing new to this tradition. And since June time, when the company released the GT200 series of really new chips, they only had some optical shrink products in 55nm, and no truly new GPU's. The GeForce GTS 250 is based on the G92b chip, the 55nm successor of the 65nm G92 chip. The 55nm G92b was launched as GeForce 9800 GTX+ version and NVIDIA now claims that this new card is an upgrade to this good old card. The GeForce 9800 GTX+ was launched in June and it was selling for $229. The new GeForce GTX 250 will be selling at a much lower price point and also has been slightly optimized. - FudZilla

EVGA e-GeForce GTS 250 SuperClock Board Preview

NVIDIA dreams that the new GeForce GTS 250 with almost the same clocks and specs with 1GB will be selling for $149 and $129 for the 512MB version. We don't believe that this is possible at this time, but eventually you should be able to buy these cards at this price. The first thing that you should know about the GeForce GTS 250 is that this is a cost reduced version of GeForce 9800 GTX+ card. The card's PCB is smaller and we were informed that this card is about $15 cheaper to produce than the GeForce 9800 GTX+ version. The card is clocked at 738MHz core, 1836MHz shaders and 2200MHz for the 256-bit GDDR3 memory.

The overclocked EVGA e-GeForce GTS 250 SuperClocked board is clocked at 774MHz core, 1890MHz for shaders and 2200MHz memory. The graphics card looks almost the same, although it has better thermal characteristics and we were informed that some of the cost down GeForce 9800 GTX+ that were selling in October were almost identical to what NVIDIA now calls GeForce GTS 250. The new GeForce GTS 250 has a single 6-pin PCI Express power connector, while the GeForce 9800 GTX+ normally has two. Combining the GeForce GTS 250 and GeForce 9800 GTX+ cards in SLI we can get better performance.

We faced an interesting graphics board today, the EVGA e-GeForce GTS 250 SuperClocked, based on their G92b chipset, the 55nm successor of the 65nm G92 chip. So it runs at 774MHz core, compared to the reference 738MHz, and it features 512MB of memory clocked at 2200MHz on a 256-bit bus. It is less noisy than the GeForce 9800 GTX+ and scores a few frames more, but the price of the card is what stops us from recommending it right now. NVIDIA is also launching other GeForce GTS 250's with 1GB of memory, something a bit more attractive as far as we are concerned, and it might be a hot sell if it can ship at $149.

AMD announced some price drops for the Radeon HD 4800 single chip cards, and this is what could bring the Radeon HD 4870's breath on the GeForce GTS 250's neck. And it will be interesting to see if the GeForce GTS 250 will end up cheaper than the Radeon HD 4850, that currently sells for about $130. Overall EVGA's card is slightly faster then the reference one, and the Radeon HD 4850 and the GeForce GTS 250 are really neck to neck in terms of performance, and if the GeForce GTS 250's price ends up close, the choice will ultimately be yours, as both are very good cards with a great price tag.