It was a real marvel that the NVIDIA G92 had existed in the changeable market for three years, but when the next-generation DirectX 11 graphics cards blotted out the sky and covered up the earth, the G92 was bound to die slowly.

There are many people know to cherish the "flowers" and they are also capable of creativities, Zotac is one of that guys. Zotac has developed a dual core G92, to make G92 bringing a ending glow. And Expreview is fortunate enough to have an early peek of it.

The card is codenamed dual-core GTS250 edition, boasts dual GTS250 graphics processor, they are driven in parallel computing and sophisticated drive and game, or to play a decent performance. As picture shown, the dual-core GTS250 is not very large, the board design is closed to the previous Extreme Edition series, that is, the commonly used shoulder design.

In the rear panel, we can find two similar memory component, this is top decoupling capacitors——Proadlizer, which delivers excellent interference absorption performance, and capable of filtering or decoupling.

This is the " Shoulder", the company takes reasonable control in PCB length, so as to provide adequate space for complex circuits. The power supply circuit of the MOSFET is covered under the heatsink.

When the two fan heatsink remove, PCB design gets everything at a glance; At the top, it is the core power supply circuit, a 7-phase power supply consisting of the octopus (8pin MOSFET with PowerFlat56 package), tantalum capacitors, inductors magnetic screen; And a 6-phase corresponds to the dual-core GTS250 while the additional phase corresponds to NF200 bridge chip.

Do you notice the bottom left? There also arrange a 2-phase power supply, it is corresponding to the two sets of memory power supply. Namely the dual-core GTS250 edition use a 3 +1 phase power design.

The core power supply

The GTS250 core

It’s a famous NF200 bridge chip that allocate PCI-E bus for dual-core and comes with communication, which makes the card processing data efficiently.

In configuration, the dual-core GTS250 is powered by 1.0ns hynix GDDR3 granularity, the number reaches 16. That is to say, the card boasts 512MB memory technology with a wide 256-bit memory interface.

In terms of the dual-core, it will use the dual-fan cooler and be available in black appearance; A 4pin temperature control design can solve the noise problem too. Zotac also install heat sink for more heat dissipation.

The Zotac dual-core GTS250 edition will be available pretty soon with a reasonable price, we’re posting a review shortly – stay tuned.