NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250 Mainstream GPU

Name: NVIDIA GeForce GTS 250 Mainstream GPU - Page 7
Brand: NVIDIA

by Marco Chiappetta — Tuesday, March 03, 2009, 03:00 AM EDT

Left 4 Dead

DirectX Gaming Performance

Left 4 Dead

Left 4 Dead is a co-operative, survival horror, first-person shooter that was developed by Turtle Rock Studios, which was purchased by Valve part-way into development. Like Half Life 2, the game uses the Source engine, however, the visual in L4D are far superior to anything seen in the Half Life universe to date. The game pits four Survivors of an apocalyptic pandemic against hordes of aggressive zombies. We tested the game at resolutions of 1,920 x 1,200 and 2,560 x 1,600 with 4x anti-aliasing and 16x anisotropic filtering enabled and all in game graphical options set to their maximum values.

The GeForce GTS 250 slipped past the Radeon HD 4850 by a couple of frames per second in our custom Left 4 Dead benchmark, besting ATI's mainstream offering by a slight margin at both resolutions. Once again though, the Radeon HD 4870 and the GeForce GTX 260, specifically, offer much more performance for the extra $60 to $70 investment.

Remember to push Boomers back before shooting them. And don't hog all of the medkits! :)

Tags: Nvidia, GeForce, graphics, GPU, video

Marco Chiappetta

Marco's interest in computing and technology dates all the way back to his early childhood. Even before being exposed to the Commodore P.E.T. and later the Commodore 64 in the early ‘80s, he was interested in electricity and electronics, and he still has the modded AFX cars and shop-worn soldering irons to prove it. Once he got his hands on his own Commodore 64, however, computing became Marco's passion. Throughout his academic and professional lives, Marco has worked with virtually every major platform from the TRS-80 and Amiga, to today's high end, multi-core servers. Over the years, he has worked in many fields related to technology and computing, including system design, assembly and sales, professional quality assurance testing, and technical writing. In addition to being the Managing Editor here at HotHardware for close to 15 years, Marco is also a freelance writer whose work has been published in a number of PC and technology related print publications and he is a regular fixture on HotHardware’s own Two and a Half Geeks webcast. - Contact: marco(at)hothardware(dot)com