Zotac GTS250 X2

[NaMcO]

250x2 should be almost as fast as a 280 witch the last time i looked is faster then 4890

Exactly. It just needs the 'right' price and it will be a real nice videocard

[eric66]

its like better version of 9800gx2 which ran out of memory on high res but question is do we really need another 9800gx2 ?

[yngndrw]

250x2 should be almost as fast as a 280 witch the last time i looked is faster then 4890

I'm missing the point here. Why not just get a 280/285 - That way you don't have to fight with the annoying amount of games which get sub-par SLi performance.

[saaya]

40.9/34.1/21.3 5770
37.3/30.8/18.8 gts250

and you say they are not close?
the 260 is faster than the 5770, so of course a 5770 is closer to a 260 than a gts250... but whats your point?

i dont understand how you are trying to conclude that a gts250x2 would be comparable to a 5770 when a single GTS250 is almost as fast as a 5770...

and a 9800gx2 performing CLOSE to a 4870... well how do you define close?
a 9800gx2 beats a gtx280... and a 4870 is slower than a gtx280, in fact its slower than a gtx275...
so to sum it up, you say a 9800gx2 is close to a 4870 when in fact there are 2 cards in between, a 280 and a 275... i think we can conclude that NO, a 9800gx2 is not close to a 4870, and a gts250X2 would be even faster than a 9800gx2...

a 9800gx2 clocks in at 600/1500 with 1000 memory vs 738/1600 and 1100 mem...
so a dual GTS250 would be 23%/6%/10% faster, all combined id guess around 15%...
which means a dual GTS250 card would be faster than a GTX285 and almost as fast as a 5850...

so NO, a gts250x2 is not "almost" faster than a 5770, its MUCH faster...
and since there are GTS250 1gb cards for as low as 99$, this card has some serious price perf potential and can cost 250$, much less than a gtx285 and less than a 5850...

[=[PULSAR]=]

Has anyone heard any updates on these cards?

[Olivon]

40.9/34.1/21.3 5770
37.3/30.8/18.8 gts250

and you say they are not close?
the 260 is faster than the 5770, so of course a 5770 is closer to a 260 than a gts250... but whats your point?

i dont understand how you are trying to conclude that a gts250x2 would be comparable to a 5770 when a single GTS250 is almost as fast as a 5770...

and a 9800gx2 performing CLOSE to a 4870... well how do you define close?
a 9800gx2 beats a gtx280... and a 4870 is slower than a gtx280, in fact its slower than a gtx275...
so to sum it up, you say a 9800gx2 is close to a 4870 when in fact there are 2 cards in between, a 280 and a 275... i think we can conclude that NO, a 9800gx2 is not close to a 4870, and a gts250X2 would be even faster than a 9800gx2...

a 9800gx2 clocks in at 600/1500 with 1000 memory vs 738/1600 and 1100 mem...
so a dual GTS250 would be 23%/6%/10% faster, all combined id guess around 15%...
which means a dual GTS250 card would be faster than a GTX285 and almost as fast as a 5850...

so NO, a gts250x2 is not "almost" faster than a 5770, its MUCH faster...
and since there are GTS250 1gb cards for as low as 99$, this card has some serious price perf potential and can cost 250$, much less than a gtx285 and less than a 5850...

You forgot frequences saaya :

The dual-core GTS250 running at 675MHz/2000MHz/1696MHz (Core/Memory/Shader) got a 3DMarkVantage score of P13964, the performance is between GTX285 and GTX260.

[=SOC= Admiral]

How lovely for folding and i just so happen to have 3 spare PCI3 x16 lanes.

[cowie]

it seems to me that only two things will make a differance between the performance of this card and the gx2.

1 stock volts gx2 1.15 3d,if the 250x2 comes with the same it will run the same,unless the 250x2 has much better coolig,then maybe 1 more step in the core speed if that.

2 ram the base evga and bfg 250's i have,the ram is rated at 2600. if used it might have a small performace advantage over the slower speed ram gx2's(or even 98gtx+)overclocked.

on the otherhand i'm not sure if this card can be volt modded with software as the gx2.
that is if the card ever makes it to the wild.

[saaya]

oh the clocks are already decided?
lower core but higher shader clocks... sounds good!
and yeah, weve been hearing about those gts250x2 cards for a while now... still no launch date?