Thread: Gigabyte GV-N250OC-1GI GeForce GTS 250

A few months back NVIDIA "launched" the GeForce GTS 250. The motive behind the reference in the earlier report is that the GTS 250 is not precisely somewhat new. While a lot of NVIDIA's R&D dollars have gone into their higher-end products for example the GTX 285 as well as GTX 295, to suit their mid-level needs they curved to an old stand-by: rebranding an earlier higher-end card. In the case of the GeForce GTS 250, we're pretty much looking at the similar specifications that we observe with the GeForce 9800 GTX+, with a 1GB frame buffer being the only main distinction (and still that isn't a significant differentiating reason as 9800 GTX+ cards with 1GB of onboard memory have been approximately for quite some time).

So, then, what's a producer to do with their present as well as upcoming manufactured goods listings? To stay aggressive, and not have products lasting in the warehouses, companies have to alter for these changes quickly. For Gigabyte, they went down matching paths in regards to the GTS 250. First, they took the GeForce 9800 GTX+ GPUs presently in their control, flashed their BIOSes, restructured the cooler, as well as rechristened them as the GV-N250ZL-1GI. Newer shipments that were previously marked as GTS 250s were used to produce the card that we're looking at today, the GV-N250OC-1GI. Even though it may be noted that "OC" is part of the product name, this card in reality does not get overclocked past the default specifications laid out by NVIDIA. As an alternative, it emerge that the OC refers to the differences in speeds among the 'ZL' model as well as the 'OC' model, with the ZL clocking in at 740 / 1850 / 2000 MHz and the OC at 738 / 1836 / 2200 MHz. The major difference appears to be with the memory clocks, although a latest BIOS update for the OC edition will update the core along with shader clock speeds to equal the ZL. We also became aware, yet, of a amendment to the GV-N250OC-1GI that comes with superior core along with shader clock speeds, bringing the GPU up to 765 MHz and the shaders up to 1912 MHz. For now, we'll focus on the original version's specifications, listed below:



As we revealed in the preface, the best part of these specifications match those of the GeForce 9800 GTX+. We can still keep the memory buffer numbers undamaged, as not only were there 512 MB as well as 1 GB option of the 9800 GTX+, but we have seen the same amounts of memory fixed on GTS 250s as well. As we're not covering something new in terms of the basic technology behind the GeForce GTS 250 as well as the G92 NVIDIA's recommend previous as well as current GPU architectures: