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Review: NVIDIA (eVGA) GeForce GTS 250 1GB: much ado about nothing?

by Tarinder Sandhu on 3 March 2009, 08:00 3.2

Tags: GeForce GTS 250 Superclocked 1GB, EVGA, NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA), PC

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Call of Duty 4

Call of Duty 4: MW (high-end) 1,680x1,050 4xAA 16xAF
eVGA GeForce GTS 250 SC 1GBSapphire Radeon HD 4850 512MBXFX Radeon HD 4870 XXX 1GBInno3D GeForce GTX 260 896MBScan GeForce 9800 GTX+ 512MBSapphire Radeon HD 4870 512MB
70.8363.5782.1377.57078


Call of Duty 4: MW (high-end) 1,920x1,200 4xAA 16xAF
eVGA GeForce GTS 250 SC 1GBSapphire Radeon HD 4850 512MBXFX Radeon HD 4870 XXX 1GBInno3D GeForce GTX 260 896MBScan GeForce 9800 GTX+ 512MBSapphire Radeon HD 4870 512MB
59.453.8368.1366.3758.5766.45


Call of Duty 4: MW (high-end) 2,560x1,600 4xAA 16xAF
eVGA GeForce GTS 250 SC 1GBSapphire Radeon HD 4850 512MBXFX Radeon HD 4870 XXX 1GBInno3D GeForce GTX 260 896MBScan GeForce 9800 GTX+ 512MBSapphire Radeon HD 4870 512MB
3933.9344.544.837.142.1


All cards do pretty well at 1,920x1,200 in Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, but there's scant little difference between the 1GB-equipped eVGA GTS 250 Superclocked and a regular 9800 GTX+ 512MB.

A larger frame-buffer does little to aid performance, evinced by the results between the Sapphire Radeon HD 4870 512MB and pre-overclocked XFX Radeon HD 4870 1GB.