Thread: Zotac Geforce GTS 250 AMP!

The GTS 250 graphic cards are the rebadged versions of the 9800 GTX+ and the cards that come with 512 MB of memory are basically the same as the 9800 GTX+ cards. The difference in power and PCB design comes only with the 1 GB version of the GTS 250. Other than that, the PCB of the GTS 250 is an inch shorter than that of the 9800 GTX+, but this design is not followed by all manufacturers and the one we have from ZOTAC is also of the longer kind. This card is the 1 GB version, and ZOTAC has used the reference cooling solution from NVIDIA which takes up two slots. The game XIII Century: Death 0' Glory and 3D Mark Vantage have been bundled along with this card.

This AMP! edition card comes with a core clock of 750 MHz (standard, 738 MHz), Shader Clock 1890 MHz (standard, 1836 MHz) and memory clock of 2300 MHz (standard, 2200 MHz). The number of shaders have not changed and remain at 128. The length of this card remains the same and so has the cooling solution, but what's changed here is that instead of two 6-pin connectors there is a single S-pin connector.

Performance of this card was tested in Windows Vista using an Intel QX9650 3.0 GHz and 4 GB ofDDR2 memory at 1066 MHz. The Fps results that were obtained with this card were on the higher side with all the benchmarks at resolutions of 1600 x 1200 and 1920 x 1200 with 4x AA and 4x AF. 3D Mark Vantage also gave us a GPU score of 6847.

The GeForce GTS 250 could be considered either the highest card of the mid-ranged graphics cards or even the lowest of the high end cards as this falls under the GT-200 series. Overall, the ZOTAC AMP! version of this card which is where the 9800 GTX+ cards used to be. But with the recent price drop of graphics cards, we would suggest you get the GTX 260 which would devour this card whole.