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Galaxy makes a dual GTS250 graphics card

By Justin Robinson
08:29 Feb 4, 2010 | 7 Comments
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Galaxy makes a dual GTS250 graphics card

Galaxy threw two cores onto one PCB for high-performance SLI-on-a-card loving.

There have been rumours floating around the internet for quite some time about Galaxy's dual GTS250 card - literally a card with two cores squeezed on there - but it's only recently that we've received confirmation.

The card itself sports two GTS250 cores running at overclocked speeds of 675MHz on the core, though the memory speeds remain unknown.

This is an interesting move by Galazy, due to the expense of designing a custom PCB for two cores, but due to the end-of-life status given to all NVIDIA high-end cores in the GTX260/28x series it makes a lot of sense too.

Performance is actually very good, coming in supposedly almost at the level of a GTX280 card, though whether the price matches this remains to be seen.

Check out the screencap of a 3DMark Vantage run below, via Shane Baxtor's blog.

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P13964 points in Vantage, though the CPU used is unknown.

 
 
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7 Comments
SuperiorPC
Feb 4, 2010 9:12 AM
I think it would be too noisy to be worth it regardless of the price.
tunksy
Feb 4, 2010 9:58 AM
the picture is just a very early working model, the final version will be different for sure. be aweosme if they got this at $230-250 range.
Jeruselem
Feb 4, 2010 12:12 PM
9800GX2V2!
nukejockey
Feb 4, 2010 12:17 PM
lol jeruselem, I cant see this card making much of an impact unless its priced pretty cheap, somewhere around the 200 dollar mark..
SuperiorPC
Feb 4, 2010 1:11 PM
@nukejockey

agreed, $200 roughly.

otherwise people would just go get the 5700, 5800 series with directx11 support and in some case better performance.
qwakqwak
Feb 4, 2010 4:41 PM
why would you buy this unless it was retardely cheap? I doubt how much of the good you get considering it is still running though one pcie slot.

If you tie to cars together do they drive any faster?
AMD AKIMBO
Feb 4, 2010 7:53 PM
no but they can tow twice as much!

directx ten is the only downside.
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