NVIDIA’s GeForce GTS 450: Pushing Fermi In To The Mainstream
by Ryan Smith on September 13, 2010 12:02 AM EST- Posted in
- NVIDIA
- Fermi
- GeForce GTS 450
- GF106
- GPUs
Crysis: Warhead
Kicking things off as always is Crysis: Warhead, still the toughest game in our benchmark suite.Even 2 years since the release of the original Crysis, “but can it run Crysis?” is still an important question.
Ideally, NVIDIA would like the GTS 450 to be able to play everything at 1680x1050 at high settings with 4x anti-aliasing. Crysis of course eludes this, just as it does all attempts to play it at a decent framerate. Even the factory overclocked cards can’t muster 30fps here. For that we have to drop our settings to Gamer quality without AA.
Overall, at reference clocks the GTS 450 doesn’t fare so well here. At our standard 1680 setting it just falls to the Radeon HD 5750, and is miles away from the 5770. At Gamer quality it switches positions with the 5750, but still has quite a gap with the 5770. However the overclocked cards fare much better here, and they can bring the GTS 450 up to parity with the 5770. Since the cheapest 5770s are selling for no more than the GTS 450, ideally it (or its overclocked variants) need to be able to keep up with the 5770.
When it comes to minimum framerates the GTS 450 does a bit better here by edging out the 5750, but it takes a factory overclocked card to beat the 5770.
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kallogan - Monday, September 13, 2010 - link
"Furthermore our pre-release version of Badaboom with Fermi support doesn’t work either, so that also was dropped"I knew you had a special version of badaboom for your GTX 400s reviews ;)
tviceman - Monday, September 13, 2010 - link
Great job on the article. Well written, well informed. But man, you guys really need to update your benchmark suite. I think Wolfenstein sold maybe about a two dozen copies on PC. Metro2033 now has an excellent built-in benchmark buried within it's directories. L4D2 is a more demanding, and more played game, than L4D1.Since we're entering the DX11 era, incorporating as many DX11 games as possible would make sense.
Taft12 - Monday, September 13, 2010 - link
Agreed, there are a number of titles that even low-end cards can play comfortably. Consider those "case closed"Ryan said the benchmark selections are being updated in the fall, so bring on the SC2!!!
juampavalverde - Monday, September 13, 2010 - link
240mm2 for this kind of performance and power consumption? laaaaameGoty - Monday, September 13, 2010 - link
So they STILL have yet to release a full Fermi-derived chip? How long has it been, now? That's just sad.loeakaodas - Monday, September 13, 2010 - link
Did AMD release a new card or is that a mistype?"Cheese Slices: Radeon HD 5760 Deinterlacing" on the 3rd page.
Etern205 - Monday, September 13, 2010 - link
In the article, the 3-4 paragraph (quote)"entering the world as a 192 CUDA core part but with 3 sets of memory controllers and ROPs, for a combined total of a 192bit memory bus,..."
It was mentioned the card has a 192bit memory bus, but on the chart it says it's has 192 CUDA cores with a 128bit memory bus. So which is correct?
Etern205 - Monday, September 13, 2010 - link
nevermind :)Conficio - Monday, September 13, 2010 - link
Cheese Slices: Radeon HD 5760 Deinterlacingvs
When compared to the Radeon HD 5670, the GTS
thedeffox - Monday, September 13, 2010 - link
Over twenty different configurations, and you didn't include the card it's supposed to replace? Really?It seems a rather obvious card to include. More relevant than cards far outside its price bracket.