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
Mass Effect 2
Electronic Arts’ space-faring RPG is our Unreal Engine 3 game. While it doesn’t have a built in benchmark, it does let us force anti-aliasing through driver control panels, giving us a better idea of UE3’s performance at higher quality settings. Since we can’t use a recording/benchmark in ME2, we use FRAPS to record a short run.
Like HAWX, Mass Effect 2 is one of the GTS 450’s best games. Here it’s in a dead heat with the Radeon HD 5770 and leaves the 5750 in the dust. With overclocking taken in to account and it can approach the 60fps threshold at 1680 with 4x anti-aliasing. 1920 is also playable, but 37fps may not be the best choice for this game.
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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.