Gainward introduces efficient GTS 250 cards

In the everlasting rivalry between nVidia and ATI/AMD, nVidia's partners have decided to do things differently: where the GeForce cards are normally praised for their performance or featureset, they have now laid the emphasis on energy efficiency. Because nVidia manufactures all of its existing GeForce 9 cards at 55nm, they're already a lot more efficient, but apparently several brands have been able to add just a bit more to the card. Gainward for instance, introduces two new editions of its GTS 250, which will be branded "Green" edition.

It's clear that the foundation of these cards is found in the G92 architecture, released in 2007. This architecture links 128 active shader units to GDDR3 graphics memory via a 256-bits memory interface. To make the card run more economically, Gainward has decreased the clock frequencies, which makes the card more similar to the old GeForce 9800GTX when it comes to performance. The 'green' GTS 250's by Gainward will become available in 512 and 1024 MB editions and will be equipped with a sturdy dualslot cooler. The clock frequencies for respectively the core, shader units and the memory on these cards are 700, 1512 and 2000 MHz, whereas a regular GTS 250 is clocked at respectively 738, 1836 and 2200 MHz.

Gainward GTS 250 'Green' edition with either 512 or 1024 MB of memorry

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