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
HAWX
Ubisoft’s aerial action game is one of the less demanding games in our benchmark suite, particularly for the latest generation of cards. However it’s fairly unique in that it’s one of the few flying games of any kind that comes with a proper benchmark.
HAWX is without a doubt one of the GTS 450’s better games. Here the reference card reaches parity with the 5770, and the factory overclocked cards trample it. We even see the GTX 260 fall to the overclocked cards here, showing that in the right situation the GTS 450 isn’t just the GTS 250’s replacement, but a sometimes-replacement for the GTX 260 too. With HAWX 2 due soon, hopefully for NVIDIA this pattern continues.
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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.