Summary: Today we will be taking a closer look at one of ZOTAC’s medium range graphics cards, the “ZOTAC GTS 250 AMP!”. It comes overclocked directly from the factory and has a rather interesting price/performance ratio.
INTRODUCTION
The graphics card industry has always been a jungle for most consumers. There are just so many models and manufacturers to choose from and it can be overwhelming to try to get a grip of the market. And graphics cards don’t come cheap. For a high end graphics card you will have to put up more cash than for a complete gaming console like Playstation 3. Therefore we decided to take a look at what we can expect in terms of performance and value from a card in the midrange segment.
So let’s take a look at the specification of ZOTAC’s overclocked version of the NVIDIA GTS 250 chip:
ZOTAC GeForce GTS 250 AMP!
GPU
GTS 250
GPU clock
750MHz (128 processor cores)
Memory
1GB GDDR3
Memory speed
1150MHz (2,3GHz effective)
Bus width
256bits
Shader frequenzy
1890MHz
Cooling system
Reference cooler (double slot)
Video connectors
2 x DVI HDTV/S-Video
Compatible with HDCP
Yes
Compatibility with SLI
Yes, 2-way/3-Way
Power connector
2 x PCI-E de 6 pin
Maximum consumption
150W
Supported technologies
DirectX 10, Shader Model 4.0, GeForce 3D Vision Ready, NVIDIA PureVideo HD, NVIDIA PhysX, NVIDIA CUDA
The specifications of this GTS 250 remain far from the top models of the NVIDIA 200 series. Still, it is from the most recent generation of NVIDIA graphics cards. ZOTAC has not put too much work on this card, it is basically the same as NVIDIA:s reference model except for the increase of frequency of the GPU clock and memory speed.
