Zotac Reveals New GeForce Cards At CeBIT

by Shawn Oliver — Tuesday, March 03, 2009, 07:28 PM EDT

We knew Zotac was going green at CeBIT, but we had no idea it would take things this far. In an effort to draw attention to itself for playing nice with Mother Nature, Zotac has introduced the GeForce, which reportedly delivers 40 percent more power efficiency compared to other 9600GT cards. Basically, if you buy this card, you're getting all of the benefits of a GeForce 9600GT, but you'll be getting it while using 40 percent less energy (to the card, at least).

The device itself includes 64 stream processors, support for DirectX 10, OpenGL 2.1 and CUDA-based 3D games, and high-speed GDDR3 memory. Furthermore, you'll find an engine clock of 600MHz, a 1500MHz shader clock, 1800MHz memory clock, 512MB of GDDR3 RAM and two dual-link DVI ports.

In case that's just not enough Zotac for one day, the company is also introducing its GeForce GTS 250 AMP! Edition, GTS 250 512MB and GeForce GTS 250 1GB. The former is a slightly more powerful version of the GTS 250 than the latter two cards, as it touts a 750MHz engine clock compared to a 738MHz engine clock in the non-AMP! iterations. For what it's worth, the AMP! card has slightly higher speeds in the shader clock and memory clock, too. There's been no mention made yet on pricing, but you can pore over the full specification lists below.

Product Name:	ZOTAC GeForce® 9600GT Eco
GPU:	NVIDIA GeForce® 9600GT
Core Clock speed:	600 MHz
Stream processors	64
Shader clock	1500 MHz
Memory Clock speed:	1800 MHz
Memory	512MB GDDR3
Memory interface:	256-bit
Cooling:	Active
DirectX™ version	DirectX™ 10, Shader Model 4.0
Other hardware features	Dual Dual-link DVI, HDCP, NVIDIA® Lumenex™ Engine, Quantum Effects™ Technology
HDCP:	Yes
Software Features:	nView Multi-Display, NVIDIA PureVideo™ HD Technology, NVIDIA CUDA™ technology, NVIDIA PhysX™ technology
Windows Vista capability	Certified for Windows Vista with Aero user interface

Product Name:	ZOTAC GeForce GTS 250	ZOTAC GeForce GTS 250 AMP! Edition
GPU:	NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250	NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250
Core Clock speed:	738 MHz	750 MHz
Stream processors	128	128
Shader clock	1836 MHz	1890 MHz
Memory Clock speed:	2200 MHz	2300 MHz
Memory	512MB or 1GB GDDR3	1GB GDDR3
Memory interface:	256-bit
Cooling:	Active
DirectX™ version	DirectX™ 10, Shader Model 4.0
Other hardware features	Dual Dual-link DVI, HDCP, NVIDIA® Lumenex™ Engine, Quantum Effects™ Technology
HDCP:	Yes
Software Features:	nView Multi-Display, NVIDIA PureVideo™ HD Technology, NVIDIA CUDA technology, NVIDIA PhysX technology
Windows Vista capability	Certified for Windows Vista with Aero user interface

Tags: Nvidia, GeForce, graphics, Zotac, GPU

Zotac Reveals New GeForce Cards At CeBIT

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