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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Hrel - Tuesday, September 14, 2010 - link
Hi, can you please get this card put in bench. I know you're updating soon, but I'd love it if you could just add this one last card to the current configuration. And then not toss it when the test bed gets updated, just label it by the date, as the old version. This would be very very helpful, thank you!Ryan Smith - Wednesday, September 15, 2010 - link
I'm working on Bench right now in fact. it will be in there later this morning.Casper42 - Wednesday, September 15, 2010 - link
You guys really need to stop insisting the GTX 480 is a $500 card.The one your Pricing table links to is some crazy beast of a card that is now the exception rather than the rule.
NewEgg has over 10 cards for under $500 and only 4 above $500.
Including Rebates the average price comes down to at least $470 if not cheaper.
Ryan Smith - Thursday, September 16, 2010 - link
In this case $500 is NVIDIA's official MSRP. That's right off their price chart from late last week.DJ-Destiny - Friday, October 1, 2010 - link
Okay , so that "ring-choke" thing ,isn't quite a ring-choke .
It's an solid core inductor .
Oxford Guy - Wednesday, November 17, 2010 - link
"The extra power enables extra performance, but it completely blows the performance-per-watt of the GTS 450 cards.""Given this, it makes little sense not to overclock as long as you have a card with a suitable limit."
If one wants more performance, and more performance per watt, perhaps buying one of these to overlock isn't so sensible?