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
Left 4 Dead
Introduced in 2004, Valve’s Source engine continues to live on in new Valve games. At this point even newer Source games like Left 4 Dead are rarely GPU limited to a significant degree, but we keep it on here due to the fact that we’re expecting at least one more souped-up Source game next year’s in Portal 2.
Left 4 Dead is an interesting title as when we throw a slow enough card at it, the CPU limitations give way for a new set of limitations: texturing. The GTX 460 could barely break away from the 5770 here, putting the GTS 450 in a particularly precarious position. Unfortunately for the GTS 450, it falls well below the 5770 and is even outdone by the 5750 by a few frames per second. At 87fps at 1680 this is largely academic, but it showcases where a worst-case scenario might lie.
On the plus side, even at 1920x1200 with 8x anti-aliasing, the GTS 450 still delivers better than 60fps, offering a solid example of why just about anything can play Source engine games at this point.
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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?