Introduction

Last week NVIDIA released their GeForce GTS 250 series. As most of you already know the cards are based on the existing G92 GPU which has been used on a wide range of GeForce 8800 and 9800 cards before. The only novelty, if you can call it that, is that there is a 1 GB version available now. We also reviewed the 2 GB Palit exclusive card and saw that there is no need for such a card yet.

Galaxy has chosen to use an Arctic Cooling Accelero TwinTurbo cooler on their card, 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 card will not be higher than NVIDIA's MSRP of $149.

	GeForce 9800 GT	Radeon HD 4850	GeForce 9800 GTX	GeForce GTS 250 1 GB	Galaxy GTS 250 1 GB	GeForce GTX 260	Radeon HD 4870	GeForce GTX 280	Radeon HD 4870 X2	GeForce GTX 285	GeForce GTX 295
Shader units	112	800	128	128	128	192	800	240	2x 800	240	2x 240
ROPs	16	16	16	16	16	28	16	32	2x 16	32	2x 28
GPU	G92	RV770	G92	G92	G92	GT200	RV770	GT200	2x RV770	GT200b	2x GT200b
Transistors	754M	956M	754M	754M	754M	1400M	956M	1400M	2x 956M	1400M	2x 1400M
Memory Size	512 MB	512 MB	512 MB	1024 MB	1024 MB	896 MB	512 MB	1024 MB	2x 1024 MB	1024 MB	2x 896 MB
Memory Bus Width	256 bit	256 bit	256 bit	256 bit	256 bit	448 bit	256 bit	512 bit	2x 256 bit	512 bit	2x 448 bit
Core Clock	600 MHz	625 MHz	675 MHz	738 MHz	738 MHz	576 MHz	750 MHz	602 MHz	750 MHz	648 MHz	576 MHz
Memory Clock	900 MHz	993 MHz	1100 MHz	1100 MHz	1100 MHz	999 MHz	900 MHz	1107 MHz	900 MHz	1242 MHz	999 MHz
Price	$110	$140	$160	$149	$149	$240	$190	$315	$425	$350	$500