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
BattleForge: DX11
While BattleForge can be tough under DX10, under DX11 it’s even more brutal. Here we use the DX11 renderer and turn on screen space ambient occlusion (SSAO) to its highest setting, which uses a DX11 ComputeShader.
The added complexity of DX11 always hurts performance, a dicey situation for the GTS 450 which already sat on the threshold of 30fps at 1680. DX11 does the reference card in here, but it also does in the 5700 series, where the GTS 450 closes the gap. Overclock and you can break the 30fps threshold, and in the process 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.