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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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Company of Heroes: OF

Company of Heroes: OF (high-end) 1,680x1,050 4xAA 0xAF
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
58.2649.0862.6280.3455.759.55


Company of Heroes: OF (high-end) 1,920x1,200 4xAA 0xAF
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
48.4841.7654.0266.8645.2951.96


Company of Heroes: OF (high-end) 2,560x1,600 4xAA 0xAF
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
30.9327.736.5743.6726.7933.85


The better architecture in the GeForce GTX 260 is leveraged to handily beat out the other GPUs, so it would have been nice if the GTS 250 had been based on the GT200-series, right?

The eVGA GeForce GTS 250SC 1GB generally matches a Radeon HD 4870 512MB in Company of Heroes: Opposing Fronts.