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NVIDIA has gotten a lot of mileage out of their G92 GPU architecture. Starting with the GeForce 8800 GT, which featured a 65nm variant of the G92 GPU, on up through the GeForce 9800 GTX+, which used an updated version manufactured on a more advanced 55nm process. The G92 GPU has been featured on no less than seven different GeForce branded desktop graphics cards, not to mention the slew of mobile GeForces based on the G92 that are also in production.

Specifications
Fabrication Process: 55nm
Core Clock: 738MHz
Shader Clock: 1836MHz
Stream Processors: 128 units
Memory Interface: 256-bit
Memory Amount/Type: 1BG/GDDR3 Memory
Memory Clock: 1100MHz (2.2GHz effective)
DirectX Compliance: 10
Connection: 16x PCI Express 2.0
Multi-GPU Support: SLI

With the 9800GTX+ currently selling anywhere from $125 to $175, the GTS 250 is right in line price-wise and falls below many of the cards currently offered for sale. With two flavors to choose from, differentiated from each other by the size of the frame buffer at 512MB and 1GB, they are priced accordingly at $129 and $149. Performance wise, the BFG GTS 250 outperformed the overclocked HD4850 in the majority of our benchmarks.

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