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NVIDIA’s New $249 Mid-Range GeForce GTX 275, Launched

hothardware.com — As the benchmarks show, with its MSRP of $249, the new GeForce GTX 275 is an interesting option that is a good $60 to $90 less expensive than most high-end GeForce GTX 285 cards, despite offering about 85% to 90% of the performance of NVIDIA's current flagship single-GPU.

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  • YoWhatDaFuxUp, on 04/02/2009, -5/+54Since when is $250 considered "mid-range"
  • minorthreat, on 04/02/2009, -3/+31lol @ the person above me uses best buy as a reference for video card pricing...

    I remember back in the day it was $200 bucks tops for the best video card..

    then the gamers united and companies learned they could cater to them with really expensive cards that aren't that much better. And of course being the little consumer nazi's they are, they will buy them up. They sort of remind me of the mac people with their airbooks and ipads.
  • LMN8R, on 04/02/2009, -3/+26When you can easily find a 4870 for ~$155, the extra $100 is hardly worth it. Hell, it can manage Crysis fully maxed out and still stay fully playable.

    http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Sub ...

    Especially in this economy, I wouldn't consider a $250 card "mid-range".
  • diggplug, on 04/02/2009, -1/+22nice to see graphics cards are getting more reasonably priced in this tight economy... good performance here for $250.
  • JohnAdams999, on 04/02/2009, -4/+22Buried for linking to bestbuy
  • kplo, on 04/02/2009, -0/+18Help us, GeForce GTX 275. You're our only hope.
  • frcc, on 04/02/2009, -3/+18Already bought a 4890 for the same price and clocked it to 1GHz. It was actually on the shelf to purchase and runs faster than a GTX 285 in a good number of tests. <g>
  • Jhiaxuz, on 04/02/2009, -1/+15Can they milk the G92 any more? They should actually innovate rather than reuse and rebrand their products. The same thing happened with AMD back in the Athlon X2 days until Intel put out the C2D.
  • shimmyNshake, on 04/02/2009, -1/+14God, I hate mail-in rebates.
  • amabaie, on 04/02/2009, -1/+14So....still no support for holgrams, I suppose?
  • aforsberg, on 04/02/2009, -0/+12I smell the rare fanboy-troll hybrid!
    Wait they aren't rare at all!
  • Thebruce88, on 04/02/2009, -0/+12Since roughly the Geforce 3 or 4 era, $250 has been for sure midrange.
  • LMN8R, on 04/02/2009, -4/+15A 4870 is an extremely powerful card, can run everything out there maxed out (including Crysis), and can easily be found for $155.

    A $250 card that's even more powerful than the 4870 is anything but "mid-range".
  • LMN8R, on 04/02/2009, -0/+11Yes, it's nice, but it's been this way since the 8800GT came out nearly a year and a half ago. Video card prices have been insanely reasonable ever since.

    Especially when you consider that an 8800GT can still run pretty much everything very very well these days.
  • whorunbartertwn, on 04/02/2009, -1/+12Yes you paid less for a lesser video card. Nice work. The 4850 is a great card, hell probably the catalyst of the current excellent price/performance bargains in the $150-$200 range, but it's not in the same class a 275, or the upcoming competitor from ATI the 4890.

  • audguy, on 04/02/2009, -0/+8MF! I just bought a 260 GTX Monday! *cries*
  • rheemglas, on 04/02/2009, -2/+10Best Buy has the ***** prices on everything, most of all on high end computer hardware. Best Buy can go ***** themselves, and so can you eSentrik for even bringing this atrocious retailer into a discussion on fair pricing of consumer goods.
  • Fuzi, on 04/02/2009, -0/+7ATI was lagging behind til they introduce the 4800 series , it forced nvidia to drop prices on there mid/high range GPUs.
  • Remmiz, on 04/02/2009, -0/+7I too miss those days where video cards didn't have fans on the heatsinks, if they even had that.
  • inactive, on 04/02/2009, -0/+7the hell are you talking about? CUDA IS NVIDIA
  • raptor87, on 04/02/2009, -1/+7I paid $400 for my ATI 9800pro when I purchased that, before that I had a Guillemot Prophet 3D GeForce 256 which was $300. Voodo 3's weren't cheap either so I am not sure what you mean by $200 tops "back in the day".
  • silentpl, on 04/02/2009, -2/+8So which 8xxx series card is this a copy of ?
  • themastersb, on 04/02/2009, -0/+6NVIDIA Geforce 3D Vision? As close to holograms as you'll get at the moment.
  • Shadic, on 04/02/2009, -0/+6You were updating your graphics card twice a year? Why? Anything you can buy now for $100 or so is able to play anything from the 360/PS3.
  • whorunbartertwn, on 04/02/2009, -0/+6What's the 260 a $180 card now? Don't cry you saved $70 and can probably play anything anyway.

    The 260 and 4870 are a lot more in the price/performance sweet spot than this thing is.
  • DyceFreak, on 04/02/2009, -1/+7The GeForce4 is a prime example of a card in the 2-$300 range.. .then the 9700Pro came out for $400, the first card with holy ***** performance, and a holy ***** price tag. Enter:DX9 :P

    I remember being a bus boy in middle-school saving up week after week to buy that baby...
  • FredFredrickson, on 04/02/2009, -0/+5Yes. Yes it can.
  • Philbert, on 04/02/2009, -1/+6I think I need one, I can barely get any work done on my 8800 GTS.
  • firesights, on 04/03/2009, -1/+6$250 isn't bad for a card that's FAR more powerful than a 360 or a Ps3.
  • whorunbartertwn, on 04/02/2009, -0/+5They're milking the G92 with the GTS 250, but not this G200 based card.
  • Stryker412, on 04/02/2009, -0/+4Great question, I also have the 8800GTX and would like to know.
  • JackCampbell, on 04/03/2009, -0/+4http://www.gpureview.com/show_cards.php?card1=474& ...
  • jasdf, on 04/02/2009, -0/+3Probably fairly decently at a normal resolution.
  • inactive, on 04/03/2009, -0/+3250 for a mid-range. I'll pass. Give it 2 months and it will be 100-150.
  • FredFredrickson, on 04/02/2009, -1/+4Man, only $250? Think I might have to jump on this one... time for an upgrade!
  • LMN8R, on 04/03/2009, -0/+3True, but even for $170 it's a helluva deal compared to $250 for a margional increase.
  • chaos7, on 04/03/2009, -0/+3still no reason yet for me to upgrade from my 8800GT
  • bigp3rm, on 04/03/2009, -0/+3Main thing I didn't like about my 8800 was the amount of heat the thing put out. I picked up the GTX 260 and it cooled down my office quite a bit.
  • Raptor007, on 04/02/2009, -1/+4I would say it started with the $300 7800GT, actually. But I agree, I bought a $200 8800GT and it's still fast enough for my needs.
  • whorunbartertwn, on 04/02/2009, -0/+3Better money spent = the ones currently in the price war 260 and 4870.
  • Raptor007, on 04/02/2009, -0/+3Your game console will generally render at 1280x720 or less. Go ahead and set any $100 graphics card at that resolution, and you'll get better framerates than the console.

    I used to buy a graphics card every 1-1.5 years, back when I was cheap and paid $100-150. If you buy in the $200-350 range, a card can easily last you 2-3 years. You must have been buying $50 cards to replace it twice a year.
  • sadisticmind, on 04/02/2009, -0/+3how does this compete with Nvidia's 8800GTX?
    (i have been trying to google this but having a hard time finding an answer)
  • inactive, on 04/03/2009, -0/+2you're a ***** idiot.
  • danwallace, on 04/02/2009, -0/+2http://www.guru3d.com/article/radeon-hd-4870-revie ...

    34 FPS isn't awesome, but it can still do it. I just bought a machine with the 4870 (the 1 gig version), an intel core i7 quad core 920, and 6 gigs of DDR3. I'm pretty psyched to see for myself how it performs.
  • johnbellone, on 04/02/2009, -0/+2The cost per performance is still with the GTX 260. I bought a second one a couple of days ago $150.
  • specialK16, on 04/02/2009, -0/+29/10, if you were actually trollan.
  • Shadic, on 04/03/2009, -0/+2You too? I have a two year old Gateway, I bought 4GB of RAM, and a 9800GT, along with a new power supply, and I've been happy ever since.

    Although, now that I've tasted power... It's hard to resist.
  • EliteNick, on 04/03/2009, -2/+4I still can't play Crysis even with a quad core and an 8800GT OC.
  • LMN8R, on 04/03/2009, -0/+21680x1050, everything maxed out, perfectly playable. Constant 30+ FPS? No, but luckily, this game doesn't need it.

    Bump it down to more mainstream resolutions like 1440x900, and you will get even faster frame rates.
  • chaosblade77, on 04/03/2009, -0/+2You can get a factory OC 260 that performs roughly on par with this and the 4890 for under $200. Like this one:
    http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N8 ...
    $190, $160 if you use the rebate, and it comes with a game (which doesn't mean much if you already have it...)
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