NVIDIA’s GeForce GTS 450: Pushing Fermi In To The Mainstream
by Ryan Smith on September 13, 2010 12:02 AM EST- Posted in
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STALKER: Call of Pripyat
The 3rd game in the STALKER series continues to build on GSC Game World’s X-Ray Engine by adding DX11 support, tessellation, and more. This also makes it another one of the highly demanding games in our benchmark suite.
As with Crysis, the GTS 450 couldn’t quite break 30fps at our usual Ultra settings. So we ran a smaller collection of cards at high to nudge the framerate up.
At our usual 1680 settings the GTS 450 is roughly half-way between the two Radeon 5700 series cards. But at our more playable settings, it falls to parity with the 5750. At higher settings Stalker is particularly hard on shaders, so once again it looks like we’re running in to a shader bottleneck on the GTS 450. Meanwhile the overclocked cards can match up to the 5770, but only at our usual not-quite-playable settings.
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lecaf - Monday, September 13, 2010 - link
Oh my wrong I missed the SLI partsorry
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mino - Monday, September 13, 2010 - link
That "SLI" detail ... :)jabber - Monday, September 13, 2010 - link
Buy a 5770 and OC it to 900/1300 like most should out of the box.Sorted.
Quidam67 - Saturday, September 18, 2010 - link
Agreed. The article repeatedly pointed out that an overclocked 450 catches up to a 5770, but never mentions that the 5770 generally overclocks very well so is likely to take back the lead anyway.Zokudu - Monday, September 13, 2010 - link
But it goes without saying that modern video drivers from both AMD and NVIDIA ridiculously huge, and this new installer doesn’t do anything to change that.I think your missing an are there. Otherwise wonderful article guys.
Lonyo - Monday, September 13, 2010 - link
Well, that whole bit isn't entirely accurate anyway. The NV drivers are more than 2x the size of AMD drivers, and AMD drivers aren't that much bigger than the drivers for more "mundane" things like ever printers and sound cards.Either way it's not entirely relevant at all.
iwodo - Monday, September 13, 2010 - link
Well Nv Drivers includes a lot more then ATI, otherwise they are about the same.But would Anandtech go on to find out just why Drivers Size is so huge. I have the feeling if the drivers were specifically written for one generation of graphics card it would save huge amount of space.
Taft12 - Monday, September 13, 2010 - link
I agree that there is probably a ton of code in there to support cards all the way back to 6xxx but also that this would lead to a support nightmare for users that don't know what model is in their PC.Too bad, but it's the nature of the industry and graphics tech is the fastest moving of them all.
Ryan Smith - Monday, September 13, 2010 - link
Actually we did something a bit like that early last year for the NV drivers.http://www.anandtech.com/show/3510
At the time the PhysX package was around 40% of the required space.
On modern drivers the languages have a lot to do with it. The NV International drivers are a good 30MB bigger than the English-only drivers.
heflys - Monday, September 13, 2010 - link
This card is such a disappointment. It performs worse than the year old card 5770, and only surpasses it when overclocked; it's also about the same price. Furthermore, in some reviews, the 5770 even beats it in Crossfire vs SLI comparison! To add further insult to injury, AMD is about to launch new cards shortly!This card has to be priced at $110-120 to be competitive in my book.