Originally Posted by
daseto
GTS 250. If you look around the net at lots of different reviews, you will come to find out that the GTS 250 is better in power consumption and frame rates than ATI's power hungry 4850. Lots of the ATI biased review sites like Anandtech and Xbit Labs enable the Physx support that the newer nvidia drivers use to offload physx processing from the cpu in turn causing the fps to drop in games that support that feature. It is a simple setting that can skew results by 10-15%. If you read through those type of reviews you have some of the WTF moments when suddenly a game shows up that the GTS 250 simply trounces the ATI cards even though the ATI cards are producing playable frame rates, it is due to those settings that dont work on those games as to why the GTS 250 suddenly kicks ass.
The GTS 250 has been refreshed alot, but every time it refreshes, it gets a bit better. Really i cant blame Nvidia for doing what they are doing. They have squeezed lots of performance out of a nice gpu, found ways to simplify the pcb and shrink it down from the monstrosity it was, cut the power consumption down to more than 30w less than the 4850 at idle and load and getting the pcie power connectors down to one. Sure some companies take their older cards that they couldnt sell, flash their bios to change the name and slap a new sticker on the reference cooler and sell it as if it was the same card. The end result is that the true GTS250 is more than a simple rebranding of the name, it is more akin to a new stepping for a cpu than anything else.
If you want good reviews of vid cards that are just about as unbiased as you can get, try hothardware.com
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