NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250 announced
Tuesday 03rd March 2009, 08:00:00 AM, written by Rys
NVIDIA release GeForce GTS 250 at CeBIT today, reworking GeForce 9800 GTX+ to create something with a name that invokes the heady performance heights of recent GeForce GTXs, without using GT200 as the GPU under the hood.
G92b is the chip doing the hard work, NVIDIA asking board partners to outfit GeForce GTS 250 with 1 GiB of board memory while supporting 512 MiB configurations too, on a reworked PCB that's a little smaller than on 9800 GTX+.
But that's it from a spec point of view. Clocks are the same (738 MHz base, 1836 MHz hot, 2200 Mhz mem), enabled functional unit counts and memory bus widths on the GPU are the same (128 SPs, 256-bit to memory), output rates are unchanged (16 ROPs), and display connectivity is identical (two 2560x1600 panels can be driven). Heck, you can even SLI a GTS 250 with a 9800 GTX+ sharing the same memory size.
The price is what makes GTS 250 attractive then, hitting $149 with 1 GiB, whereas 9800 GTX+ is generally higher with half that memory size. 9800 GTX+ prices aren't expected to fall, either, as marketing efforts and inventories change their focus to the new thing.
So, a 9800 GTX+ 1 GiB in all but name, taking up slightly less room in the system, for a handful of bills less. It's the financial aspect that appeals the most.
General availability is in a week.
G92b is the chip doing the hard work, NVIDIA asking board partners to outfit GeForce GTS 250 with 1 GiB of board memory while supporting 512 MiB configurations too, on a reworked PCB that's a little smaller than on 9800 GTX+.
But that's it from a spec point of view. Clocks are the same (738 MHz base, 1836 MHz hot, 2200 Mhz mem), enabled functional unit counts and memory bus widths on the GPU are the same (128 SPs, 256-bit to memory), output rates are unchanged (16 ROPs), and display connectivity is identical (two 2560x1600 panels can be driven). Heck, you can even SLI a GTS 250 with a 9800 GTX+ sharing the same memory size.
The price is what makes GTS 250 attractive then, hitting $149 with 1 GiB, whereas 9800 GTX+ is generally higher with half that memory size. 9800 GTX+ prices aren't expected to fall, either, as marketing efforts and inventories change their focus to the new thing.
So, a 9800 GTX+ 1 GiB in all but name, taking up slightly less room in the system, for a handful of bills less. It's the financial aspect that appeals the most.
General availability is in a week.
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